Chapter 14. JavaServer Pages

   

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This chapter covers JavaServer Pages (JSP). JSP, introduced in September of 1999, represents the second model for running server-side Java. We will begin with an overview of the tools required to extend the functionality of your Web sites using Java technology.

Because ColdFusion MX itself is Java-based, you can call JSPs directly using ColdFusion as the application server, which we saw how to do in the previous chapter.

In this chapter we cover JSPs. This will be easier to do than it sounds. There are only nine tags in the JSP library, compared with 90 in ColdFusion. Of course, there is a good reason for this.

Now that you have your environment set up, we will learn JSP tags, directives, scriptlets, and expressions. This won't actually take very long, because JSP itself is really only a small front end to Java.

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