Most applications require a way to dynamically generate HTML from a Java object. The dsp:droplet tag lets you do this by embedding an ATG servlet bean. The servlet bean produces output that is included in the HTML page.

Oracle Commerce provides a standard set of ATG servlet beans that you can use in your JSPs. Engineers at your site can also create servlet beans and make them available to you, as described in the Platform Programming Guide.

This chapter focuses on several ATG servlet beans that are frequently used in JSPs, with an emphasis on concepts that apply to all servlet beans. For full information about these and other ATG servlet beans, see Appendix B: ATG Servlet Beans.

This chapter includes the following topics: