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JSP (JavaServer Pages) is an extension of servlet technology that allows for mixing static content like HTML with dynamic content generated by Java code. A JSP page consists of HTML tags as well as JSP tags that allow for scripting code like Java. This makes JSP pages easier to maintain than servlets, which require mixing programming logic with presentation logic. When a JSP page is accessed, it is translated into a servlet class behind the scenes. This servlet class is then compiled and executed to generate the response.

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JSP (JavaServer Pages) is an extension of servlet technology that allows for mixing static content like HTML with dynamic content generated by Java code. A JSP page consists of HTML tags as well as JSP tags that allow for scripting code like Java. This makes JSP pages easier to maintain than servlets, which require mixing programming logic with presentation logic. When a JSP page is accessed, it is translated into a servlet class behind the scenes. This servlet class is then compiled and executed to generate the response.

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JSP Tutorial
JSP technology is used to create web application just like Servlet
technology. It can be thought of as an extension to servlet
because it provides more functionality than servlet such as
expression language, jstl etc.
A JSP page consists of HTML tags and JSP tags. The jsp pages are
easier to maintain than servlet because we can separate
designing and development. It provides some additional features such as Expression
Language, Custom Tag etc.

Advantage of JSP over Servlet


There are many advantages of JSP over servlet. They are as follows:

1) Extension to Servlet
JSP technology is the extension to servlet technology. We can use all the features of
servlet in JSP. In addition to, we can use implicit objects, predefined tags, expression
language and Custom tags in JSP, that makes JSP development easy.

2) Easy to maintain
JSP can be easily managed because we can easily separate our business logic with
presentation logic. In servlet technology, we mix our business logic with the
presentation logic.

3) Fast Development: No need to recompile and redeploy


If JSP page is modified, we don't need to recompile and redeploy the project. The
servlet code needs to be updated and recompiled if we have to change the look and
feel of the application.

4) Less code than Servlet


In JSP, we can use a lot of tags such as action tags, jstl, custom tags etc. that reduces
the code. Moreover, we can use EL, implicit objects etc.

Life cycle of a JSP Page


The JSP pages follows these phases:
Translation of JSP Page
Compilation of JSP Page
Classloading (class file is loaded by the classloader)
Instantiation (Object of the Generated Servlet is created).
Initialization ( jspInit() method is invoked by the container).

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Reqeust processing ( _jspService() method is invoked by the container).


Destroy ( jspDestroy() method is invoked by the container).

Note: jspInit(), _jspService() and jspDestroy() are the life cycle methods
of JSP.

As depicted in the above diagram, JSP page is translated into servlet by the help of JSP
translator. The JSP translator is a part of webserver that is responsible to translate the
JSP page into servlet. Afterthat Servlet page is compiled by the compiler and gets
converted into the class file. Moreover, all the processes that happens in servlet is
performed on JSP later like initialization, committing response to the browser and
destroy.

Creating a simple JSP Page


To create the first jsp page, write some html code as given below, and save it by .jsp
extension. We have save this file as index.jsp. Put it in a folder and paste the folder in
the web-apps directory in apache tomcat to run the jsp page.
index.jsp
Let's see the simple example of JSP, here we are using the scriptlet tag to put java
code in the JSP page. We will learn scriptlet tag later.
<html>
<body>
<% out.print(2*5); %>
</body>

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</html>
It will print 10 on the browser.

How to run a simple JSP Page ?


Follow the following steps to execute this JSP page:
Start the server
put the jsp file in a folder and deploy on the server
visit the browser by the url http://localhost:portno/contextRoot/jspfile e.g.
http://localhost:8888/myapplication/index.jsp

Do I need to follow directory structure to run a simple JSP ?


No, there is no need of directory structure if you don't have class files or tld files. For
example, put jsp files in a folder directly and deploy that folder.It will be running
fine.But if you are using bean class, Servlet or tld file then directory structure is
required.

Directory structure of JSP


The directory structure of JSP page is same as servlet. We contains the jsp page
outside the WEB-INF folder or in any directory.

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TOPICS of JSP Tutorial


1. JSP with Life cycle
2. JSP API
3. JSP in Eclipse
4. Scripting elements

scriptlet tag
expression tag
declaration tag
5. Implicit Objects
6. Directive elements

page directive
include directive
taglib directive
7. Exception Handling
8. Action Elements
9. Expression Language
10. MVC in JSP
11. JSTL
12. Custom tags
13. Development in JSP

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