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'''JHTML''' stands for [[Java (software platform)|Java]] within [[HTML]]. This is a page [[authoring system]] developed at [[Art Technology Group]] (ATG). Files with a ".jhtml" [[filename extension]] contain standard [[HTML tag]]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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Java Applets in HTML - A Simple Guide to HTML |url=http://www.simplehtmlguide.com/javaapplets.php |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=www.simplehtmlguide.com}}</ref>

== Overview ==
When a request is made for a JHTML page, e.g. "index.jhtml", the request for this page is forwarded from the [[HTTP server]] 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 [[web browser]], usually) that originally requested the document. The principal benefit of this system is that it allows logic running in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] on the application server to generate the HTML dynamically. Often a [[database]] is queried to accumulate the specific data needed in the page.

The system is derived from earlier forms of [[Common Gateway Interface|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. [[Sun Microsystems]] licensed parts of this technology and developed the [[JavaServer Pages|JSP]] system from the ATG page compilation system.

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