Life cycle of a JSP page consists of two phases, translation phase and execution phase. Every JSP is a Servlet, a JSP page is translated and compiled into servlet and the resulting servlet handles the request, So life cycle of a JSP page largely depends on the Servlet API. JSP engine does the following 7 [...]

Servlets are managed by web container.Life cycle defines how servlet is loaded, instantiated and initialized, handles requests from clients and how it is taken out of service.The servlet life cycle methods are defined in the javax.servlet.Servlet interface of the Servlet API that all Servlets must implement directly or indirectly by extending GenericServlet or HttpServlet abstract [...]