JThe scripting elements are used for the development of JSP applications. It gives an environment to insert java code. JSP Scripting element are written inside <% %> tags. These code inside <% %> tags are processed by the JSP engine during translation of the JSP page. Any other text in the JSP page is considered as HTML code or plain text. There are three types of scripting elements:

• Scriptlet tag
• Compilation of Servlet into .class file.
• Expression tag
• Declaration tag