JSP

JSP stands for Jakarta Server Pages (formerly known as JavaServer Pages). JSP is a collection of technologies such as HTML, java, XML, javascript etc that helps developers create dynamically generated web pages. Released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems, JSP is similar to PHP and ASP, but uses Java programming language.

To deploy and run jsp (Jakarta Server Pages), a compatible web server with a servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat or Jetty, is required.

Important points about JSPs

• JSP stands for Jakarta Server Pages.
• JSPs are translated into servlets
• JSP is Server-side scripting language. Server-side scripting means that the JSP code is processed on the web server rather than the client side such as a browser.
• Extension of jsp files is .jsp.
• JSP page is a combination of html code, java code, and/or javascript codes
• JSPs are used to build dynamic web applications.
• JSP is an improved extended version of Servlet technology.

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