Let’s talk for a moment about what JSPs contain. We know that JSPs are a new type of file that combines standard HTML and new tags for scripting in the Java language.
One of the new tags gives JSPs the ability to call reusable components called JavaBeans.
JSPs look like HTML, but they are code that gets compiled into Java servlets. The responsibility of the resulting servlet is to generate a user page. That page will be a combination of the HTML from the JSP file with embedded dynamic content specified by the new tags. In this way, a JSP describes a representative HTML response. The dynamic content will be specific to a given http request.
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