CHAPTER 18Working with JSP Pages

And hangs this web in the skyOr finds it hanging, already hung for him,Written as a path for him to travel.

—Carl Sandburg (1878–1967),Webs (Good Morning, America)

As with many innovations in the Java community, the concept of lightweight web applications gained ground quickly. Web Tier technologies such as servlets and JSP pages offer developers a powerful method for coding applications that have Java at the core and HTML output for the client. Providing HTML output from a programming language is an old concept that has taken many forms. JSP code is attractive in the same way that Perl and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit are—it offers the powerful combination of development using a full-featured programming language (Java) ...

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