Summary
This chapter provided an overview of JSP Web tier components and described how JSP implementations are built upon the technology of servlets. JSP pages are converted into servlets and then run in a servlet container. Using existing technology infrastructure in this way has provided a smooth development path for software vendors who already had a servlet container in place. This approach has the added advantage of now having software products that provide two server-side solutions: JSPs and servlets.
The syntax of JSP includes the entire Java language (a powerful feature in itself) and a number of tags and directives that were detailed in this chapter. Using these tags, JSP pages can integrate Java code into the JSP page with minimal Java ...
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