Configuring JSP in web

Configuring JSP in web

1. An app can use JavaServer Pages (JSPs) to implement web pages. JSPs are servlets defined using static content (such as HTML) mixed with Java code.

2. App Engine supports automatic compilation and URL mapping for JSPs. A JSP file in the application's WAR (outside of WEB-INF/) whose filename ends in .jsp is compiled into a servlet class automatically, and mapped to the URL path equivalent to the path to the JSP file from the WAR root.

3. If you want more control over how the JSP is mapped to a URL, you can specify the mapping explicitly by declaring it with a <servlet> element in the deployment descriptor. Instead of a <servlet-class> element, you specify a <jsp-file> element with the path to the JSP file from the WAR root. The <servlet> element for the JSP can contain initialization parameters.