You see them all over the Web: little snippets of information that are buried in a page, and change each time you visit. Or even more mysterious, bits of information about you: your machine name and ...

Usage of the standard server-side include mechanisms is more common. Includes are more accessible to Web authors and often appear as the more practical solution even to experienced Java developers.

An HTML command used to place up-to-date data as well as common data (boilerplate) into a Web page before sending it to the user. For example, it can be used to retrieve the current date and size of ...