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Overview of Oracle's JSP Implementation

As of Oracle8i release 8.1.7 (OracleJSP 1.1.0.0.0), the Oracle implementation of JavaServer Pages is a complete implementation of the Sun Microsystems JavaServer Pages Specification, Version 1.1.

This chapter introduces features of OracleJSP as well as discussing support for OracleJSP in various environments, particularly the Oracle Servlet Engine (OSE). OSE is the Web server (more precisely, the servlet container) provided with Oracle8i JServer.

For an overview of standard JavaServer Pages features, see Chapter 1, "General Overview".

The following topics are covered here:

• Portability and Functionality Across Servlet Environments

• Support for OracleJSP in Oracle Environments

• Support for OracleJSP in Non-Oracle Environments

• Overview of OracleJSP Programmatic Extensions

• Summary of OracleJSP Releases and Feature Sets

• OracleJSP Execution Models

• Oracle JDeveloper Support for OracleJSP

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