Introduction to JSP (Java Server Pages)

Course overview

Uplatz provides this comprehensive course on Java Server Pages (JSP). It is a self-paced course consisting of video tutorials. You will be awarded Course Completion Certificate at the end of the course.

JSP is a server side technology that does all the processing at server. It is used for creating dynamic web applications, using java as programming language.

Basically, any html file can be converted to JSP file by just changing the file extension from “.html” to “.jsp”, it would run just fine. What differentiates JSP from HTML is the ability to use java code inside HTML. In JSP, you can embed Java code in HTML using JSP tags. for e.g. run the code below, every time you run this, it would display the current time. That is what makes this code dynamic.

JSP technology is used to create web application just like Servlet technology. It can be thought of as an extension to Servlet because it provides more functionality than servlet such as expression language, JSTL, etc. A JSP page consists of HTML tags and JSP tags. The JSP pages are easier to maintain than Servlet because we can separate designing and development. It provides some additional features such as Expression Language, Custom Tags, etc.

JSP technology is the extension to Servlet technology. We can use all the features of the Servlet in JSP. In addition to, we can use implicit objects, predefined tags, expression language and Custom tags in JSP, that makes JSP development easy.

JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java standard technology that enables you to write dynamic, data-driven pages for your Java web applications. JSP is built on top of the Java Servlet specification. The two technologies typically work together, especially in older Java web applications. From a coding perspective, the most obvious difference between them is that with servlets you write Java code and then embed client-side markup (like HTML) into that code, whereas with JSP you start with the client-side script or markup, then embed JSP tags to connect your page to the Java backend.

This course, Java EE: Java Server Pages, provides an end-to-end look at Java Server Pages. You'll start from the beginning, learning the fundamentals of JSP, Directives, and Standard Actions. Next, you'll learn explore Java Standard Tag Library, Expression Language, Using Custom Tags, and Projects. Finally, you'll tackle Project Development using the topics that you have learned in the previous modules. By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation to get started with Web Development using JSP.