Paul Tokmakov

Try escaping:
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As far as I understand it, jsp has it's own response stream with buffer (of type JspWriter) on top of the one we get from response.getWriter().
By the way, you can check this by setting <%@ page buffer="none"%> In this case content included with RequestDispatcher will appear in the right place, because all otput from jsp will be automatically flushed to the actual response strean.

That's because RequestDispatcher sends included content directly to the response stream, ignoring jsp's output buffer, so included content will always appear at the begining of the stream i.e. on top of the page. That's why we need "pageContext.include" which uses the buffer.