Chapter 1. Getting Started!

Welcome to JavaServer Pages (JSP)! Over the next 21 days, you'll get an in-depth guided tour of the ins and outs of JSP. From the most basic aspects to the most advanced, we're going to become masters of JSP in this book. You've come to the right place.

If you want to do Web programming on the server, there's just nothing like JSP. It's easy to get started with JSP, and because it has the incredible power of Java behind it, there's no limit to how far you can go. Traditionally, server programming was a task only for experts, but with JSP, that's all in the past—now anyone can make Web pages come alive as never before.

Let's dig into JSP immediately. In this, our first day on the job, we're going to take a look at these ...

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