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Difference Between Servlet and JSP

February 4, 2014 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

This tutorial post highlights the important difference between JSP and Servlet technologies. Servlet and JSP are the two key Java server side technologies that are building blocks for any of the Java web frameworks. It is important to know the difference between these two technologies. This is one of the fundamental concept that confuses the many beginner Java web developers.

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The basic difference is that, JSP is for web page and Servlet is for Java components. Servlet is HTML in Java where as JSP is Java in HTML.

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  • A servlet is like any other java class. You put HTML into print statements like you use System.out or how javascript uses document.write.
  • A JSP technically gets converted to a servlet but it looks more like PHP files where you embed the java into HTML.

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Servlet Life Cycle

JSP Life Cycle

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Difference Between Servlet and JSP

In this article we will list some of the differences between Servlets and JSP.

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If you have any questions or personal guidance on learning the Servlet and JSP programming, please send a mail to krishnas at javabeat.net or write it in the comments section.

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About Krishna Srinivasan

He is Founder and Chief Editor of JavaBeat. He has more than 8+ years of experience on developing Web applications. He writes about Spring, DOJO, JSF, Hibernate and many other emerging technologies in this blog.

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