JavaServer Pages (JSPs)

JavaServer Pages (JSPs) are based on the concept of server-side parsing. A JavaServer Page is an HTML page with Java statements embedded in it. The JSP specification defines certain special tags that can be embedded within the HTML page. In a normal working scenario, the JSP pages are parsed by a JSP compiler within the application server and converted into a Java servlet with the generated code embedded within the Java servlet as a set of Java statements. The generated Java servlet is then compiled as a normal servlet and loaded into the Java servlet container. The Java servlet is then used to process the user requests.

In effect, the JSP specification simplifies the development of Java servlets, thus enabling specialized ...

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