Java Projects - Second Edition

JavaServer Pages

I promised you that I would not bore you with JavaServer Pages (JSP) because that is a technology of the past. Even though it is the past, it is still not history as there are many programs running that still use JSP.

JSP pages are web pages that contain HTML and Java code combined. When an HTTP request is served by a JSP page, the servlet container reads the JSP page, executes the Java parts, takes the HTML parts as they are, and, in this way, mixing the two together, creates an HTML page that is sent to the browser:

<%@ page language="java"
         contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
         pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<html>
<body>
<% for( int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i ++ ){ %>
  hallo<br/>
<% } %>
</body>
</html>

The preceding page will create an ...