Characteristics of JSP
- JSP is an extended version of Servlet Technology.
- JSP technology is similar to the Servlet application program interface(API).
- It Provides some Additional features Such as expression language and Custom tags etc.
- A JSP file is much easier to deploy because the JSP engine performs the recompilation for the Java code automatically.
JSP Full form
JSP stands for Jakarta Server Pages (formerly JavaServer Pages). It is a programming tool that is used on the Application Server Side to create dynamic web pages. JSP basically used to support Platform–Independent and Dynamic methods to build web-dependent applications based on HTML, XML, SOAP, etc. JSP allows developers to embed Java code as well as pre-defined tags. JSP pages are like ASP (Active Server Pages) in that they are compiled on the server, instead of the user’s web browser.
Note: In JSP, Java code can be embedded with special tags enclosed in “<% %>” or “<%= %>”
JSP was developed by Sun Microsystems Company in 1999. For the development of the JSP, languages are used all the functions built into it have been created in the Java programming language.