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Govind Seshadri

You can use "JSP-style" comments to selectively block out code while debugging or simply to comment your scriptlets. JSP comments are not visible at the client.

For example:

<%-- the scriptlet is now commented out
  <%
	out.println("Hello World");
  %>
--%>

You can also use HTML-style comments anywhere within your JSP page. These comments are visible at the client. For example:

<!-- (c)1999 jGuru.com -->

Of course, you can also use comments supported by your JSP scripting language within your scriptlets. For example, assuming Java is the scripting language, you can have:

<%
//some comment

/** 
yet another comment
**/
%>