13.1. Basic Bean Use
The jsp:useBean action lets you load a bean to be used in the JSP page. Beans provide a very useful capability because they let you exploit the reusability of Java classes without sacrificing the convenience that JSP adds over servlets alone.
The simplest syntax for specifying that a bean should be used is:
<jsp:useBean id="name" class="package.Class" />
This usually means “instantiate an object of the class specified by Class, and bind it to a variable with the name specified by id.” So, for example, the JSP action
<jsp:useBean id="book1" class="coreservlets.Book" />
can normally be thought of as equivalent to the scriptlet
<% coreservlets.Book book1 = new coreservlets.Book(); %>
Although it is convenient to think ...
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