Diferrence between two JSP Delimiters

Question

I am fairly new to JSP but I am pretty good at Java.

In some tutorials on the internet you use

<%

and other times you use

<%!

What is the difference between these two exactly?

possible duplicate of [What is the difference between <% ... %> and <%! ... %> in jsp](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3333138/what-is-the-difference-between-and-in-jsp) — BalusC, Jun 27 '13 at 11:05
Related: [How to avoid Java code in JSP files?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3177733/how-to-avoid-java-code-in-jsp-files/) The style which you're showing there is discouraged since a decade. Perhaps you were reading heavily outdated tutorials? — BalusC, Jun 27 '13 at 11:06
I need to press a button on a website. When I press it, I will fetch some data from a database and make an Excel spreadsheet accordingly. I just didn't want to ask that kind of question. — OmniOwl, Jun 27 '13 at 11:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '13 at 11:01

1

The <%! is used for class content declarations and <% is used for request method body instructions.

Take a look at an example of JSP Tutorial - Declarations

answered Jun 27 '13 at 11:01

Michal Borek

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 27 '13 at 11:21

0

<% is for normal jsp scriplets and <%! is for static methods and variables.

edited Jun 27 '13 at 11:21

Smern

answered Jun 27 '13 at 11:04

Don Srinath

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