Does the <jsp:include> tag apply <include-prelude> and <include-coda> configurations?

Question

I have a servlet that sets a request attribute named "snippet" and forwards to a JSP page. The JSP page has a runtime include as follows:

<jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/jsp/snippets/${snippet}.jsp/>

I also have the following defined:

<jsp-property-group>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
    <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
    <scripting-invalid>false</scripting-invalid>
    <include-prelude>/WEB-INF/jsp/top.jsp</include-prelude>
    <include-coda>/WEB-INF/jsp/bottom.jsp</include-coda>
    <trim-directive-whitespaces>true</trim-directive-whitespaces>
    <default-content-type>text/html</default-content-type>
</jsp-property-group>

I think what is happening is when the <jsp:include> triggers, the container also applies the <include-prelude> and <include-coda> configurations because I am seeing some wierd nested HTML code in my response.

Question is, is it possible <include-prelude> and <include-coda> is applied when using <jsp:include> ? If so, how can I get around this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As given How to load particular page without JSP include prelude and coda , the answer seems to be to create a separate property group.

I suggest putting them in a sub-directory.

<jsp-property-group>
    <url-pattern>/includes/*</url-pattern>
</jsp-property-group>