JSP Web Server Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn about the JSP capable web server / application server.

JSP Web Server Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn about the JSP capable web server / application server.

Web-server can be refer to a computer hardware / software that is connected to an internet/intranet to respond a request made by a web browser/client i.e. it identifies a client request and respond from the server according to the client. A Web-server or container provides the services to the web application to run within it. In other words you can say it provides a runtime environment to manage their life-cycle, concurrency control, security etc. A Web-server is identified on the network by a specific unique address called IP Address.

Since we are going to understand the JSP so it should be need to know about the JSP capable web server or application server. There is a number of JSP capable web server or application server that are freely available to download for the evaluation and/or development. Some are given here :

• Apache Tomcat
• Oracle WebLogic
• IBM WebSphere
• Allaire JRun

The following diagram demonstrates how a client requests to a server and the server responds to the client relatively.

Note :- We will use Apache Tomcat web server for creating examples of JSP.