19.13. Summary
Servlets are efficient, convenient, powerful, portable, secure, and inexpensive alternatives to CGI and other server-side programming technologies. Despite their many benefits, they have one major drawback: generating HTML. Using println statements to build large sections of mostly static HTML is tedious, awkward, and hard to maintain. Besides, it mixes the code that generates the data with the code that presents it, making it hard to put different team members on different parts of the same project. That's where JavaServer Pages (JSP) comes in. Read on!
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