Kendo UI is a framework with everything you need to build sites and mobile apps with HTML and JavaScript. It has no dependencies on a specific server-side technology, making it universally usable by any web developer. In fact, Kendo UI widgets can be used in apps with no server-side dependencies, making it ideal for offline and mobile HTML5 apps.

Telerik UI for JSP extends the core Kendo UI client-side framework by enabling Java developers to initialize and work with the widgets completely on the server-side. As a set of helpers that sit on top of Kendo UI tools, Telerik UI for JSP cannot be used without the Kendo UI client-side libraries.

Yes. You can use Kendo UI (Web, DataViz, and Mobile) in Java web applications without the JSP server wrappers. This can be done by simply adding client-side references to the Kendo UI JavaScript and CSS resources and working with the Kendo UI JavaScript API directly from client code.

If, on the other hand, you would like to make use of the extended functionality available in the JSP framework and you prefer to simplify the integration of the Kendo UI framework in this environment, consider using Telerik UI for JSP.

Telerik UI for JSP is offered with royalty-free commercial license. View this page for more info.

Telerik UI for JSP consists of Kendo UI Complete (Web + DataViz + Mobile JavaScript libraries) and JSP wrappers, tailored to be used with Java Server Pages in either a stand-alone JSP app, or as the view engine of an MVC framework, such as Spring MVC or Struts.

In its current version Telerik UI for JSP contains server wrappers for the Kendo UI Web and DataViz widgets. 

We recognize that the Java world of today extends far beyond the Java language, and that the JVM has spawned a bevy of great languages and runtimes, such as Scala, JRuby, Groovy and more. As much as we would like to be able to build tools for web developers working with all of these technologies—and we might even choose to do so in the future—we felt that our first set of Kendo UI wrappers for Java should be available to the widest number of developers working in the space. Because JSP can be used as both a stand-alone web framework, in addition to as the view engine for MVC frameworks like Spring MVC and Struts, we feel as though JSP is a natural choice.

Telerik UI for JSP was officially released in 2013, and is offered with a royalty-free commercial license. For more information, please review this page.

Telerik UI for JSP empowers developers familiar with the Java JSP framework to seamlessly configure Kendo UI widgets using Java server-side programming, in lieu of coding HTML and JavaScript. Telerik UI for JSP also extends the functionality of Kendo UI widgets with features like server-side rendering, grid server binding and more.

No. Telerik UI for JSP is available for purchase solely as a separate product. Since this product serves a separate audience, apart from traditional .NET developers using Telerik products, we decided that it didn’t make sense to include Telerik UI for JSP in any of the Telerik DevCraft collections.