JSP Hosting

Amongst many options available for website development, JSP hosting is considered as one of the most favored option by the developers. The ease of operating and managing the Java server pages makes it somewhat similar to ASP hosting or Active server pages hosting. Hence, for any novice it is easy to get confused between JSP and ASP hosting. Nevertheless, there are striking differences. JSP is a server-based language, where HTML and XML is integrated to the simple tag-side codes. The result is a platform independent, interactive and seemingly complex page. The platform free WebPages mean a lot, as the websites look similar on any screen irrespective of the platforms. The process becomes a lot easier when JSP-coded websites are posted on the JSP servlet hosting provider. JSP hosting gives the freedom to the web designers to combine the static & standard HTML code with the dynamically generated HTML. This is an improvement over most of the CGI programs, which require the web designers to develop the entire website in one program. JSP makes it possible to compose the static and the dynamic aspects of the site in a separate fashion. The flexibility achieved through this feature of JSP hosting allows the web designers to expand their creative thinking and results in a site, which is simple to develop yet seemingly complex in operation.

Thus, it becomes a logical choice for any web designer to opt for Java Hosting inclusive of JSP support as it eliminates the repetition. Evidently, for web designers working as part of the team, the workload distribution is efficient when the JSP hosting is chosen as one of the web site development option. Another important aspect to highlight here is that usually, you need to learn the language of the platform for designing any website. However, for the case of JSP hosting, there is an advantage over this situation, as the developers need not know Java to use the JSP hosting.

As mentioned earlier, JSP uses simple tags, few of the commonly used are as given below –

• Variable and methods Declarations – This tag is used to declare the methods or variables, which would be used across the page. Compared to any programming language this is the place for any variable declaration e.g. working storage division in ANSI Cobol. The variables or methods declared in this section are manipulated throughout the code done for the page.
• Hidden comments– This is another simple tag for making the code simple to understand. These comments are not visible to the user. These are for making the page easy to support and acts as guidance for the maintenance staff/programmer. The improved readability of the code makes the process of maintenance easier and efficient.
• Directives Tag – These tags consists of statements or instructions, which are processed during the compilation of the page. Few examples of Directive tags are Include and tag lib. The inclusion of contents of other file to the current tag file can be done using the Include directive.
• Scriptlets – These tags are small pieces of the code, which are built to access and execute the declared variables at some desired time.

Why Use JSP Hosting

There are several reasons why someone would use the JSP Hosting. Few reasons are given as below:

It is possible to port JSP pages across non-Microsoft operating systems and servers. This makes it possible for any user to move from Microsoft to Linux or any other operating system and vice-versa without really worrying about the re-designing of the application. Thus, if ever a business enterprise wants to go for a Linux server from a Microsoft based server, purely because of financial reasons, it would do them good to have a JSP hosting in place. Their web site would remain operational irrespective of the backend change. Moreover, it would be a seamless change from the Customer’s perspective.  This advantage is lost on ASP hosting, which is written in platform specific language making it impossible to port across different operating systems.

JSP makes it possible for the team if web designers to focus on their specific skill sets as the content and the appearance of the website can be designed by different people. In addition, as the composition of JSP is simpler than pure servlets, the programmer can focus on developing existing HTML knowledge. As the example shows, different people at the same time can work on the different aspects of the website making it possible to bring up the site within a limited timeframe and least dependency on specific resources.