JavaServer Pages


JavaServer Pages

(programming, World-Wide Web)(JSP) A freely availablespecification for extending the Java Servlet API togenerate dynamic web pages on a web server. The JSPspecification was written by industry leaders as part of theJava development program.

JSP assists developers in creating HTML or XML pages thatcombine static (fixed) page templates with dynamic content.Separating the user interface from content generation allowspage designers to change the page layout without having torewrite program code. JSP was designed to be simpler thanpure servlets or CGI scripting.

JSP uses XML-like tags and scripts written in Java to generatethe page content. HTML or XML formatting tags are passedback to the client. Application logic can live on the server,e.g. in JavaBeans.

JSP is a cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, which only runs in IIS on Windows NT.

Applications written to the JSP specification can be run oncompliant web servers, and web servers such as Apache,Netscape Enterprise Server, and Microsoft IIS that havehad Java support added. JSP should soon be available onUnix, AS/400, and mainframe platforms.

JavaServer Pages.

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