Creating Static Content

Response and Page Encoding

Creating Static Content

You create static content in a JSP page simply by writing itas if you were creating a page that consisted only of that content.Static content can be expressed in any text-based format, such as HTML, WirelessMarkup Language (WML), and XML. The default format is HTML. If you wantto use a format other than HTML, at the beginning of your JSPpage you include apage directive with thecontentType attribute set to thecontent type. The purpose of thecontentType directive is to allow the browser tocorrectly interpret the resulting content. So if you wanted a page to containdata expressed in WML, you would include the following directive:

<%@ page contentType="text/vnd.wap.wml"%>

A registry of content type names is kept by the IANA athttp://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/.

Response and Page Encoding

You also use thecontentType attribute to specify the encoding of the response.For example, the date application specifies that the page should be encoded usingUTF-8, an encoding that supports almost all locales, using the followingpage directive:

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

If the response encoding weren’t set, the localized dates would not be renderedcorrectly.

To set the source encoding of the page itself, you would usethe followingpage directive:

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

You can also set the page encoding of a set of JSPpages. The value of the page encoding varies depending on the configuration specifiedin the JSP configuration section of the web application deployment descriptor (seeDeclaring Page Encodings).

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