In today’s environment, most web sites want to display dynamic content based on user and session. And most content, such as images, text, and banner ads, is easiest to build with HTML editors. So we need to mix the "static" content of HTML files with "directives" for accessing or generating dynamic content.

Java Server Pages meet this need. They provide server-side scripting support for generating web pages with combined static and dynamic content.

In this lecture, we’ll talk about key aspects of Java Server Pages, called JSPs for short. We’ll consider several key concepts as they apply to JSPs:

* Servlets
* JavaBeans and
* Syntax

So let’s get started. Click FORWARD to begin.

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