CHAPTER 5Understanding Views
View technologies for web applications in the open source world appear to be a rather popular topic with the seemingly endless number of them available for Java. There always appears to be a newer, better one to learn if you grow tired of the incumbent JSP. JSP, however, remains the most popular view technology; produced by Sun to compete with Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP), JSP has become the industry standard, and there is a high level of developer knowledge surrounding JSP.
JSP allows developers to mix traditional markup languages such as HTML with Java code (called scriptlets) to produce dynamic output. On the downside, this facility is extremely open to abuse; therefore, there are custom tag libraries ...
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