Chapter 1. JSP Overview: The Components of a JavaServer Page
JavaServer Pages, also known as JSPs, are a simple but powerful technology used to generate dynamic HTML on the server side. They are a direct extension of Java servlets and provide a way to separate content generation from content presentation. The JSP engine is just another servlet that is mapped to the extension *.jsp. The following code contains a simple example of a JSP file:
<HTML>
<BODY>
<% out.println("HELLO JSP WORLD"); %>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Its output would look similar to Figure 1.1.
You can see that this document looks like any other HTML document with some added tags containing Java code. The source code is stored in a file called HelloJSPWorld.jsp and copied to the document ...
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