JSP Tutorial for Beginners

Here is a quick-start JSP tutorial for beginners. Before you read this tutorial, I suggest you to have a per-requisite knowledge of servlets in Java.
In this tutorial you are going to learn:

• Scriptlets, Declarations and Expressions
• JSP Directives
• XML Tags
• Working with JSP beans
• Custom tags

Introduction to JSP 

JSP stands for Java Server Pages. It is a tag based approach that mixes both the HTML and the java servlet code. The reasons why we should use JSP will be the strongest foundation for you.

• You do not need to write servlet classes anymore. They are replaced by JSP.
• Tag based approach is more cleaner and programmer friendly.
• HTML mixed with servlet code will provide all logic at one place.
• You NEED NOT COMPILE servlets, RESTART server. Because the server automatically checks if a JSP page is modified upon each request. If modified, jasper container translates JSP to servlet (.java) file, compiles it and then loads it automatically.
• Simplified data processing with beans approach.

1. Scriptlets, Declarations and Expressions

The very basics of JSP you need to start coding with.

• Using scriptlets in JSP
• Mixing HTML code with JSP
• Using declarations with example 
• JSP Expressions with example 

2. JSP Directives

• Using @page import
• Creating error pages in JSP
• Using @include directive

3. XML Tags

A clean, tag based approach for JSP.

• Using <jsp:scriptlet> tag
• <jsp:declaration> tag example
• <jsp:include> tag with example
• Using <jsp:forward> tag

4. JSP Beans

How JSP simplifies data processing with MVC using beans?

• Working with JSP beans example

5. Custom tags 

Create custom tags to improve re-usability.

• Creating custom tags in JSP with example