bean:include

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<bean:include />

The <bean:include /> tag is used to evaluate and retrieve the results of a Web application resource. The tag makes the response data available as an object of type String. The tag functions much like the <jsp:include> standard action, except that the response is stored in a page scoped object attribute, as opposed to being written to the output stream.

The resource being evaluated by the <bean:include /> tag can be identified using three different attributes: forward, href, and page.

The <bean:include /> tag has no body and supports six attributes, described in Table 20.4.

Table 20.4: <bean:include /> Tag Attributes

Attribute	Description
id	Specifies the page-level variable used to store the result of the evaluated URI condition. (Required)
anchor	Specifies an HTML anchor tag that will be added to the generated URI. You do not need to include the # character when identifying the anchor. (Optional)
forward	Used to name a global <forward /> subelement, which will be used to look up a reference to the application-relative or context-relative URI identified by the <forward /> element's path attribute. (Optional)
href	Used to include resources external to the hosting application. (Optional)
page	Used to include the value of an application-relative URI. (Optional)
transaction	If true, causes the transaction token, if available, to be included in the URI being requested. The default value is false. (Optional)

Here's an example of how we can use the <bean:include /> tag:

 <bean:include  page="/navbar.jsp"/> 

In this example, the context-relative resource navbar.jsp is evaluated and its response is placed in the page-level attribute navbar. The type of page-level attribute is java.lang.String.

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