JSP is a dynamic scripting capability for web pages that allows Java as well as a few special tags to be embedded into a web file (HTML/XML, etc). The suffix traditionally ends with .jsp to indicate to the web server that the file is a JSP files. JSP is a server side technology – you can’t do any client side validation with it. The advantages are: a) The JSP assists in making the HTML more functional. Servlets on the other hand allow outputting of HTML but it is a tedious process. b) It is easy to make a change and then let the JSP capability of the web server you are using deal with compiling it into a servlet and running it.

JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology is the Java platform technology for delivering dynamic content to web applications in a portable, secure and well-defined way. The JSP Technology allows us to use HTML, Java, JavaScript and XML in a single file to create high quality and fully functionaly User Interface components for Web Applications.