Are JSP expressions evaluated inside HTML comments of a JSP page?

Question

Are JSP expressions evaluated inside HTML comments of a JSP page?

i.e What would server output in this case?

<!--
Jeremy <%="Flowers"%>
--> 

Will the expression be resolved or will it remain as an expression in the HTML comment

a)

<!--

Jeremy <%="Flowers"%>

-->

or b)

<!--

Jeremy Flowers

-->

Answer 1

Yes, the expressions will be resolved. The JSP page doesn't even know it is writing in HTML format, so it doesn't interpret anything HTML-specific.

You can also write plain text using JSP, or JSON, or whatever you like.

Answer 2

Those are html comments, not jsp comments. So, all jsp code inside is still evaluated.

There's also jsp-specific way to comment content: <%-– ... -–%>. Content inside won't be evaluated by the server and won't be passed to the browser. So, it acts as html comment too.