JSP Page 6 Java Server Pages were something of a late comer to
Java and had a rocky start, but that was a couple of years ago.
Today, JSP is a well-accepted component of Java, and many tools
use and support it. As a framework for scripting database
connections, JSP usually works through JDBC (the Java equivalent
of ODBC). JSP is a good vehicle for moving between platforms;
you don't need to be overly cautious about the effects of
extensions (like extensions for Unix in PHP) or
incompatibilities (like with Microsoft COM objects in ASP). A
good place to start with JSP is the reference implementation,
Tomcat (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat), an open source
program.