Gearing up the JSP Performance

Abstract

The real challenge of any application development is performance. After the J2EE specification release, JSP plays a very prominent role in web application development. This article discusses various performance factors and trade-offs of designing JSP modules for J2EE applications.

Contents

1. JSP life cycle and essential methods

   i.   JSP lifecycle
   ii.   JSP's init, service, destroy methods
   iii.   Context path options
   iv.   html Vs. .jsp files

2. JSP directives

   i.   <%@page> directive
   ii.   <%@include> Vs.
   iii.    Vs. sendRedirect()

3. MVC and Custom Tags

   i.   Trade-offs with MVC
   ii.   Trade-offs with Custom tags