Preview: Benefits of JSP

Although JSP technically can t do anything 

servlets can t do, JSP makes it easier to:

Write HTML

Read and maintain the HTML

JSP makes it possible to:

Use standard HTML tools such as HomeSite or 

UltraDev

Have different members of your team do the HTML 

layout and the programming

JSP encourages you to

Separate the (Java

TM

technology) code that creates the 

content from the (HTML) code that presents it

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More Information

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

http://www.coreservlets.com

More detail on all topics presented here

More Servlets and 

JavaServer Pages

http://www.moreservlets.com

New features in servlets 2.3 and JSP 1.2 (filters and 

listeners), Web applications, security, standard JSP tag 

library

Servlet home page

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/

JavaServer Pages home page

http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/

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