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Developing Your First Portlet
Step 4 of 8

In the same folder your view.jsp is in, create the edit_entry.jsp file:

Right-click your project’s src/main/resources/META-INF/resources folder and choose New → File.
Name the file edit_entry.jsp and click Finish.
Add this line to the top of the file:
```
<%@ include file="init.jsp" %>
```
Remember, it’s a best practice to add all JSP imports and tag library declarations to a single file that’s imported by your application’s other JSP files. For edit_entry.jsp, you need these imports to access the portlet tags that create URLs and the Alloy tags that create the form.
You’ll create two URLs: one to submit the form and one to go back to the view.jsp. To create the URL to go back to view.jsp, add the following tag below the first line you added:
```
<portlet:renderURL var="viewURL">
    <portlet:param name="mvcPath" value="/view.jsp"></portlet:param>
</portlet:renderURL>
```

Next, you must create a new URL for submitting the form. Before you do, some explanation is in order.

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