JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology originated more than four years ago as a
powerful way to dynamically generate HTML on the server side. Over time, and
with the input of the developer community, JSP technology has evolved and
matured, keeping simplicity at the forefront. The next generation of JSP
technology, version 2.0, will be released with J2EE 1.4 and represents an
easy-to-use, robust, and extensible technology for building Web applications,
well suited toward generating dynamic Web content in such formats as HTML,
DHTML, XHTML, SVG, and XML.
The JSP 2.0 specification introduces many new features, including a simple
yet flexible integrated expression language, an encapsulation mechanism
called tag files, a simplified tag extension API, and a substantially
improved XML syntax. Let's explore some of these features and see what they
mean for your Web project.
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