The Anatomy of a JSP Page

The Anatomy of a JSP Page

A JSP page is simply a regular web page with JSP elements for generating the parts that differ for each request.

Everything in the page that isn't a JSP element is called template text. Template text can be any text: HTML, WML, XML, or even plain text. Since HTML is by far the most common web page language in use today.

Note that JSP has no dependency on HTML; it can be used with any markup language. 

Template text is always passed straight through to the browser. When a JSP page request is processed, the template text and dynamic content generated by the JSP elements are merged, and the result is sent as the response to the browser.