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About JSP

Sun's JSP (JavaServer Pages) provides a Java-based way to dynamically serve HTML and other Web content. When a browser requests a JSP page from a JSP-enabled server, the server interprets the JSP code and sends the resulting HTML to the requesting browser. (The browser receives only HTML, not JSP code.) For more information on JSP, see Sun's JSP page, as described in HTML and Web technologies resources.

A block of JSP code begins with <% and ends with %>. Since JSP uses the same delimiters as ASP, Dreamweaver displays an ASP icon for JSP code.