JSP Basics

JSP is a simple Java-based specification for building dynamic Web sites. As an extension of Java servlets, JSP was designed to simplify the use of servlets. As a result, JSP is optimized to produce character-based output to a client, typically a person using a Web browser.

A new JSP developer needs to know six facts about servlets.

  1. JSP is only designed to perform character-based output. When a JSP page becomes a servlet, that servlet is also built to send character-based output. Since XML is 100% character based, we have no need to do binary operations for this book.

  2. All JSP pages are automatically compiled into a servlet by the JSP container. As a JSP programmer, the only required knowledge is the JSP code, because the container will ...

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