JavaServer Pages: Introduction

• Disadvantages of Servlets
• Relationship of JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Servlets
• JSP History
• JSP Life Cycle
• A Hello World JSP
• JSP Language Basics (overview)
• Types of JSP Syntax
• Parts of a JSP
• Scripting Elements
• Scriptlets
• Expressions
• Declarations
• Risks: Thread Safety
• Risks: JSP Maintainability
• JSP Elements: Directives
• Directives
• The page Directive
• The include Directive
• The taglib Directive
• JSP Configuration: Alternative to Directives (overview)
• The jsp-config Element
• Use of jsp-property-group Sub-element
• Configuration Example
• Standard JSP Actions (overview)
• Recall the JSP Elements
• Action Basics
• Runtime Includes
• Actions for Applets
• Applet Example
• Forwarding Action
• JSP Comments vs. HTML/XML Comments
• Implicit Objects
• Implicit Object Example
• More Implicit Objects
• JSP and JDBC
• Configuring a DataSource in Tomcat
• Accessing a DataSource in a JSP