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Session 7 (JSP Intro)

JSP technology is used to create web applications and can be thought of as an extension to servlets. JSP pages consist of HTML tags and JSP tags and are easier to maintain than servlets. There are advantages to using JSP such as being an extension to servlets, being easier to maintain, requiring less code, and not needing to recompile on modification.

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Session 7 (JSP Intro)

JSP technology is used to create web applications and can be thought of as an extension to servlets. JSP pages consist of HTML tags and JSP tags and are easier to maintain than servlets. There are advantages to using JSP such as being an extension to servlets, being easier to maintain, requiring less code, and not needing to recompile on modification.

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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 Tags,
etc.

Advantages of JSP over Servlet


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

1) Extension to Servlet

JSP technology is the extension to Servlet technology. We can use all the
features of the 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 many tags such as action tags, JSTL, custom tags, etc. that
reduces the code. Moreover, we can use EL, implicit objects, etc.

The Lifecycle of a JSP Page

The JSP pages follow these phases:

o Translation of JSP Page


o Compilation of JSP Page
o Classloading (the classloader loads class file)
o Instantiation (Object of the Generated Servlet is created).
o Initialization ( the container invokes jspInit() method).
o Request processing ( the container invokes _jspService() method).
o Destroy ( the container invokes jspDestroy() method).

5. JSP Scripting Elements


JSP provides the following scripting elements:
 JSP Comment <%-- comments -->
 JSP Expression <%= Java Expression %>
 JSP Scriptlet <% Java Statement(s) %>
 JSP Directive <%@ page|include ... %>

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 saved 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 where we are using the scriptlet tag to put
Java code in the JSP page. We will learn scriptlet tag later.

1. <html>
2. <body>
3. <% out.print(2*5); %>
4. </body>
5. </html>

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