What is the difference between JSP and JavaScript?
Just to clarify on silverdarkness’ answer, JSP pages are JavaServer Pages, which are a hybrid-mixture of regular HTML and unprocessed Java codelets – the server does the actual processing of the Java code before farming the finished version of the page out to the end-users. In this manner, JSP is similar to ColdFusion, PHP and ASP (and to a lesser extent, mainly due to its age, CGI/Perl, although the theory is the same). More information on JSP can be found on Sun’s page (the developers of all things Java): http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/ For the aforementioned reasons (mainly the server parsing the raw pages and processing of the raw Java codelets before sending them to the user’s browser), JSP is a ‘server-side’ language. Conversely, JavaScript is a ‘client-side’ coding language – its complexity is a lot simpler, and bears a few similarities to Microsoft’s own VBScript (although JS and VBS can’t do exactly the same things). VBScripts on pages are mainly relegated to company intrane
