Hello everybody, the power of a Servlet is, that I can "load" everything what I need for the requests in its init()-Method. A good example are DB-connections, which I need to build only once. I learned that in JSP I can use the jspInit() for it. But I think the power of JSP is to avoid Java-Code in the pages at all and use Tag-Libs. For example I can create a <connection>-Tag to manage the Connection-stuff. What is a good way, that the Connection is only created when the JSP-page is first requested and persists between the requests using such a <connection>-Tag? Thanks! Jens =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". FAQs on JSP can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html