How Does JSP Work
To begin, let's look at the world's simplest JSP page, our version of the infamous “Hello World” program (see Listing 1.1).
Listing 1.1. HelloWorld.jsp
<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Hello World!</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>Hello World!</BODY> </HTML> |
Okay, I can hear the screams of protest already. “That isn't JSP—that's plain old HTML. What are you trying to pull? I want my money back!”
It might look like innocent HTML, and if you put it into a .html file on a Web server, it would be delivered as straight HTML. But look what happens to this innocent little snippet in Listing 1.2 if you put it into a .jsp file instead.
Listing 1.2. HelloWorld as Java
package org.apache.jsp; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import javax.servlet.jsp.*; ... |
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