If you are developing using Tomcat (hopefully you are), consider reading
the comments (and documentation) on the Jasper 2 JSP Engine.
Particularly look here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jasper-howto.html
Specifically, trying the flags "keepgenerated" will bring some light to
your question. If you are using Eclipse (or any other decent IDE), also
consider putting a break point in a jsp page and take a look at what the
variables show you. This will bring lots of goddies to your studying.
Concerning Struts (or Spring MVC), Struts 1.x and Spring MVC use a
servlet to control incoming requests whereas Struts 2.x uses a Filter
instead. They do not implement any JSP specific interface as they are
not concern with JSP technology.
JSP is (IMHO) a rendering technology (think of it as a servlet that
simply outputs HTML code to the output buffer writer). Technically,
it's the "V" in MVC. Granted you could do it with a servlet, but JSP was
born with the idea that visualizing HTML mixed with Java code was easier
to imagine instead of writing code like :
out.write("<head></head>"); etc, etc...
Servlets can be used to be the "C" of MVC (or at least help out). This
is a distinction I've seen pretty much everywhere I've been (when you
implement your own). You could write your servlets to forward to other
servlets (jsps) of use 3rd Party frameworks. Frameworks like Struts
1.x, 2.x or Spring MVC delegate this mechanism to simple class (Action,
Controller, Pojo, etc) to do the processing continuing with the MVC
pattern. The delegation to a rendering technology typically occurs
within these frameworks where you have options (instead of simply
relying on JPS, now you can choose in using Velocity, Freemarker, etc).
I've been using the latter and I'm liking it very much.
Hope this helps!
UseTheFork wrote:
Hi,
I am studying JSP and I understand that these pages are translated into java
code servlets, which are then compiled and executed on the application
server.
i) Do these 'JSP servlets' implement the HttpJspPage interface defined in
javax.servlet.jsp?
ii) Does Struts (or Spring MVC) provide implementation of such 'JSP
servlets'? Or does Strut (and Spring MVC) have nothing to do with this?
Thanks,
J.
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