JSP Actions

Actions are commands given to the JSP engine. They direct the engine to perform certain tasks during the execution of the page. to explain this in one scenario, if we need to get the out put of some other jsp file in existing we can use action as following

<jsp:include page="test.jsp" />

there are six standard actions in JSP

1. jsp:include
2. jsp:forward
3. jsp:useBean
4. jsp:setProperty
5. jsp:getProperty
6. jsp:plugin

first two standard actions are called as Reusable web components. 3, 4, 5 are related to java beans and its attributes and plugins use to generate html code for embedding soem clients side objects like an applet.