JSP Tutorial

Tutorial Overview

The prerequisites for the tutorial are:
  • HTML.  You should be able to put together HTML pages.
  • Java.  You should be able to program in Java.
This tutorial teaches JSP by progressing from very simple examples to complex examples.

Advanced learners may want to do a quick review of the introductory material and skip to the lessons appropriate to their level.

The steps in the tutorial are outlined below:

  1. Getting familiar with your JSP server
  2. Your first JSP
  3. Adding dynamic content via expressions
  4. Scriptlets
  5. Mixing Scriptlets and HTML
  6. Directives
  7. Declarations
  8. Tags
  9. Sessions
  10. Beans and Forms Processing
  11. Controllers
  12. Tag Libraries
  13. Form Editing
  14. Log-in pages
  15. Further learning

First step:  Getting familiar with your JSP server