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(ATG). Files with a ".jhtml"

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s in addition to proprietary tags that reference Java objects running on a special server set up to handle requests for pages of this sort.

Overview

When a request is made for a JHTML page, e.g. "index.jhtml", the request for this page is forwarded from the

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to another system running a Java application server. The JHTML page is compiled first into a .java file and then into a Java .class file. The application server runs the code in the .class file as a servlet whose sole function is to emit a stream of standard HTTP and HTML data back to the HTTP server and on back to the client software (the

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, usually) that originally requested the document. The principal benefit of this system is that it allows logic running in Java on the application server to generate the HTML dynamically. Often a

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is queried to accumulate the specific data needed in the page. The system is derived from earlier forms of CGI programming that allow a program running on a web server to generate HTML dynamically. With JHTML, you can author standard HTML and just insert a few extra tags that represent the pieces of the HTML page data that Java should be used to create. JHTML is a proprietary technology of ATG.

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licensed parts of this technology and developed the JSP system from the ATG page compilation system. HTML Java platform {{Compu-lang-stub