This document provides an introduction to Java Server Pages (JSP) technology. It defines JSP as an extension of servlet technology that provides additional functionality like expression language and JSTL tags. A JSP page consists of HTML tags and JSP tags. JSP offers advantages over servlets like implicit objects, predefined tags, and easier separation of design and logic. The life cycle of a JSP page includes translation, compilation, classloading, instantiation, request processing, and destruction.