Translation Unit....
Fisher Daniel
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posted 14 years ago
A Translation Unit is a set of pages that will be translated into a single servlet.
So... when you use a static include (<%@ include file="blah.jsp" %> -- that page is combined with the initial page at translation time - and is compiled into a single servlet.
When you use a dynamic include (<jsp:include page="blah.jsp" %> -- the OUTPUT of that page is combined with the initial page at request time -- and are two seperate servlets.
* the PageContext scope makes variables available for that particular translation unit.
* You can't define the same variable more than once in a single transaltion unit.
* You can't define the same bean <jsp:useBean> more than once in a single translation unit.
So... when you use a static include (<%@ include file="blah.jsp" %> -- that page is combined with the initial page at translation time - and is compiled into a single servlet.
When you use a dynamic include (<jsp:include page="blah.jsp" %> -- the OUTPUT of that page is combined with the initial page at request time -- and are two seperate servlets.
* the PageContext scope makes variables available for that particular translation unit.
* You can't define the same variable more than once in a single transaltion unit.
* You can't define the same bean <jsp:useBean> more than once in a single translation unit.
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