Just Java™ 2

Java Server Pages

We will conclude this tour of server-side Java with a description of Java Server Pages (JSP), and an example JSP program. One way of understanding JSP is to say that JSP is ASP, without the restriction to Windows only. Another way of understanding it is to say that JSP programs are a variant on ordinary servlets, where some of the simple tasks are automated for you. In fact, the container implements JSPs by automatically translating them into the equivalent servlet which is then run in the usual way.

A JSP is a slick way of writing a servlet

An ordinary unchanging web page contains HTML (plus Javascript perhaps). A servlet is a compiled Java program. A JSP program is a hybrid of these two. It lets you mix individual ...