JavaServer Pages Technology

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JavaServer PagesTM technology, abbreviated as JSP, provides a simplified, fast way to create web pages and applications that display dynamically generated content. Such content includes HTML, DHTML, XHTML, and XML. In essence, a JSP page describes how to process a request to create a response.

A JSP page is a server-side, text-based J2EETM component. Such a component executes in a container installed on a web server or on a web-enabled application server. The JSP container delivers requests from a client to a JSP page and responses from the JSP page to the client. When compiling a JSP page, the container dynamically translates the JSP source into a JavaTM class that implements the javax.servlet.Servlet interface. JSP 1.2 uses the classes from the Java Servlet 2.3 Specification. See http://java.sun.com/products/servlet for more information.

A JSP page looks like a standard HTML or XML page, with additional scripting elements that the JSP engine processes and strips out. Typically, JSP elements create text that is inserted into the results page.

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JSP Syntax
Servlets

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