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Chapter 1 Overview of Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Listing 1.1 A sample JSP page

Welcome to Our Store

Welcome,

Regular HTML for all the rest of the on line store's Web page.

1.4 The Advantages of JSP

JSP has a number of advantages over many of its alternatives. Here are a

few of them.

Versus Active Server Pages (ASP)

ASP is a competing technology from Microsoft. The advantages of JSP are

twofold. First, the dynamic part is written in Java, not VBScript or another

ASP specific language, so it is more powerful and better suited to complex

applications that require reusable components. Second, JSP is portable to

other operating systems and Web servers; you aren't locked into Windows

NT/2000 and IIS. You could make the same argument when comparing JSP

to ColdFusion; with JSP you can use Java and are not tied to a particular

server product.

Versus PHP

PHP is a free, open source HTML embedded scripting language that is some 

what similar to both ASP and JSP. The advantage of JSP is that the dynamic

part is written in Java, which you probably already know, which already has an

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