JSP

JSP represents a Java technology that allows the dynamic generation of HTML pages and thus enables developers to use the benefits of Java in a web server environment.

Advantages

• Java code can be easily mixed with markup
• Most of the Java libraries are available in JSP

Disadvantages

• Lack of proper database support - such as connection pooling
• XHMTL is not enforced

Tag libraries

• Pager tag library
• Google JSP tag library
• Jakarta
• pack:tag

Development tools

• Eclipse
• NetBeans
• Apache Tomcat

Versions

• JSP 1.0
• JSP 1.1
• JSP 1.2
• JSP 2.0
• JSP 2.1