JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology provides a way to create web pages that display dynamically-generated content. This technology allows you to create Web-based applications that do not require a Java VM to be running on the client. JSPs and servlets, running in a Web server, perform all of the application processing and deliver results in HTML format back to the client.

This section explains how you can take advantage of JSPs and servlets to create a server-side JWAVE application. The basic architecture of such a system is illustrated in Figure 10-1: Server-side JWAVE Architecture on page 154. In this figure, the JWaveJSPServlet is a servlet that manages JWAVE connections and parameter passing to and from PV‑WAVE. This servlet is described in detail later in this chapter.