well Sharad,
The directive tag gives special information about the page to JSP Engine. This changes the way JSP Engine processes the page. Using directive tag, user can import packages, define error handling pages or session information of JSP page.

There are three main types of directives:
1) page - processing information for this page.
2) Include - files to be included.
3) Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.

General syntax for the page directive is
<%@ page optional attribute ... %>

for details, visit the site
www.visualbuilder.com/js p/tutorial/pageorder/10/

Answered by jaivir , an ibibo Master, at 6:11 PM on May 22, 2008

hi sharad The directive tag gives special information about the page to JSP Engine. This changes the way JSP Engine processes the page. Using directive tag, user can import packages, define error handling pages or session information of JSP page.

There are three main types of directives:
1) page - processing information for this page.
2) Include - files to be included.
3) Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.

General syntax for the page directive is

<%@ page optional attribute ... %

Answered by raj u , an ibibo Master, at 3:56 PM on May 22, 2008

hi sharad jsp jsp:include tag includes the jsp during runtime, whereas the <%@ include> includes the specified jsp during compilation time.
If you modify a jsp that is included in <%@ include> tag then the change will not be reflected since we are not compiling the jsp with < % @ include> whereas it gets reflected when using jsp:include.

Answered by laks , an ibibo Master, at 3:14 PM on May 22, 2008

A JSP directive gives special information about the page to the JSP Engine.

There are three main types of directives:
1. page - processing information for this page.
2. Include - files to be included.
3. Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.
for more info pls go :-
http://www.visualbuilder.c om/jsp/tutorial/pageorder/10/

Answered by shepherd , an ibibo Master, at 9:35 AM on May 22, 2008

The directive tag gives special information about the page to JSP Engine. This changes the way JSP Engine processes the page. Using directive tag, user can import packages, define error handling pages or session information of JSP page.

There are three main types of directives:
1) page - processing information for this page.
2) Include - files to be included.
3) Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.

General syntax for the page directive is

<%@ page optional attribute ... %>

Answered by Reeta K , an ibibo Master, at 12:48 AM on May 22, 2008

well Sharad, The directive tag gives special information about the page to JSP Engine. This changes the way JSP Engine processes the page. Using directive tag, user can import packages, define error handling pages or session information of JSP page.

There are three main types of directives:
1) page - processing information for this page.
2) Include - files to be included.
3) Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.

There are three types of directive tag.

1). page
2). Include
3). Tag Lib

Syntax and usage of directive tag
page directive:

General syntax for the page directive is

<%@ page optional attribute ... %>

There are many optional attributes available for page directive. Each of these attributes are used to give special processing information to the JSP Engine changing the way the JSP Engine processes the page. Some of the optional attributes available for page directive are:

1). language

2). extends

3). import

4). session

5). buffer

6). autoFlush

7). ThreadSafe

8). info

9). errorPage

10). IsErrorPage

11). contentType

Syntax and usage of some of the optional attributes available for page directive discussed below.

Answered by Uttam , an ibibo Master, at 9:00 PM on May 21, 2008

well;
In this JSP tutorial, you will learn about Directive tag with example, page directive, language, extends, import, session and buffer.

Directive tag:

The directive tag gives special information about the page to JSP Engine. This changes the way JSP Engine processes the page. Using directive tag, user can import packages, define error handling pages or session information of JSP page.

General notation of directive tag is as follows:

There are three types of directive tag.

* page
* Include
* Tag Lib

Syntax and usage of directive tag
page directive:

General syntax for the page directive is

<%@ page optional attribute ... %>

There are many optional attributes available for page directive. Each of these attributes are used to give special processing information to the JSP Engine changing the way the JSP Engine processes the page. Some of the optional attributes available for page directive are:

* language
* extends
* import
* session
* buffer
* autoFlush
* isThreadSafe
* info
* errorPage
* IsErrorPage
* contentType
Syntax and usage of some of the optional attributes available for page directive discussed below.

Answered by kishore , an ibibo Master, at 8:52 PM on May 21, 2008

The directive tag gives special information about the page to JSP Engine. This changes the way JSP Engine processes the page. Using directive tag, user can import packages, define error handling pages or session information of JSP page.

There are three main types of directives:
1) page - processing information for this page.
2) Include - files to be included.
3) Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.

General syntax for the page directive is

<%@ page optional attribute ... %>

There are many optional attributes available for page directive. Each of these attributes are used to give special processing information to the JSP Engine changing the way the JSP Engine processes the page.

Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 8:08 PM on May 21, 2008

We explain through example-
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<HTML>
<BODY>
<%
System.out.println( "Evaluating date now" );
Date date = new Date();
%>
Hello! The time is now <%= date %>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The first line in the above example is called a "directive". A JSP "directive" starts with <%@ characters.
There are a number of JSP directives: page directive,Tag Lib directive,Include directive.

JSP Page Directive:
The page directive can contain the list of all imported packages. To import more than one item, separate the package names by commas, e.g.

<%@ page import="java.util.*,java.text.*" %>

Include directive:
Include directive is a type of directive tag. If a programmer wants to include contents of a file inside another, then the Include directive is used.
Syntax of Include directive is:

<%@ include file = "xxx.html/xx.tagf"%>


Tag Lib directive:
A user can customize actions from their tag file using the Tag Lib directive. The Tag Lib directive is a collection of custom tags.
The syntax of Tag Lib directive is:

<%@ taglib uri = "tag library URI" prefix = "tag Prefix" %>

For more detail, click the link given below-
http://www.exforsys.com/tut orials/jsp/jsp-page-directive.html

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 7:25 PM on May 21, 2008

Well Sharad , A JSP directive gives special information about the page to the JSP Engine.

There are three main types of directives:

1) page - processing information for this page.

2) Include - files to be included.

3) Tag library - tag library to be used in this page.

Directives do not produce any visible output when the page is requested but change the way the JSP Engine processes the page.

For example,you can make session data unavailable to a page by setting a page directive (session) to false.

For more information , Please visit the source site :

http://www.visualbuilder.com/j sp/tutorial/pageorder/10/

Answered by Alok Gupta , an ibibo Guru, at 5:53 PM on May 21, 2008