Uses of JSP
- JSP has many advantages. First, the dynamic part is written in Java, not Visual Basic or another MS-specific language, so it is more powerful and easier to use.
- it is platform independent for Non-Microsoft web servers and other operating systems
- JSP helps developers for making use of Special JSP tags for Insert Java Code in HTML pages
- JSP may be also be used to access JavaBeans objects. JSP allow to share information across pages using request and response objects.
- JSP can be used for separation of the view layer with the business logic in the web application.
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.