You’ve left out a lot of important details (Q: How is the JSP getting invoked? Q: Are you passing a filename in the URL? Etc. etc.)
But here’s a simple example that might get you started in the right direction:
<%
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myile.txt"));
boolean firstLine = true;
String line;
while((line = reader.readLine())!= null){
if (firstLine) {
line = "<b>" + line + "</b>";
firstLine = false;
}
out.println(line);
}
reader.close();
%>