JSP

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JSP
Stands forJavaServer Pages
CategoriesTechnology & Computing

JSP stands for JavaServer Pages, an Internet & web abbreviation.

A Java technology for building dynamic web pages by mixing HTML with Java code and special tags, compiled into servlets that run on servers such as Apache Tomcat. It was a mainstay of enterprise Java web applications in the 2000s.

Example: The legacy banking portal renders its account pages with JSP templates.

Usage notes

Released by Sun Microsystems in 1999 and now maintained as Jakarta Server Pages under the Eclipse Foundation, keeping the same abbreviation. Modern Java projects more often use template engines such as Thymeleaf or separate JavaScript front ends. Files use the .jsp extension.

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