Hi brenda, To keep it simple, fundamentally jsp and servlets have the same functionality.JSP is specification not a language like java. In fact java is the language used to write jsp pages. But jsp has been more designed to handle the presentation/visual interface of the server response to the client. It is relatively cryptic and in-elegant to generate a html page whose content is highly dynamic using a servlet. In a jsp page, you can specify the structure of html document using the normal html syntax and wherever you want the content of the page to be dynamic, simply place a corresponding jsp tag out there(refer jsp syntax card at http://java.sun.com/products/jsp). Different tags are used to accomplish different tasks. Till date, the only scripting language supported by jsp specification is java. You can use any java class or piece of java code in a jsp page. For java beans, since the purpose of jsp page is to handle presentation of the content(although processing logic can be directly put in jsp page also), we use a external java component to contain processing logic like accessing data from a database etc in a java bean and have that bean called from jsp page using the special <jsp:useBean ...../> tag. Finally, when called first time, a jsp page is cmpiled into a servlet and then treated as good as a servlet. hope this would help. please get back for more Qs. manoj ===== Manoj Kumar Infotech Consulting Inc, Camphill, PA USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.icibsl.com ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
