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[[Image:JSP RLE output1.png|thumb|240px|Example of a JSP diagram.]]

'''Jackson structured programming''' ('''JSP''') is a method for [[structured programming]] based on correspondences between data stream structure and program structure. JSP structures programs and data in terms of sequences, iterations and selections, and as a consequence it is applied when designing a program's detailed control structure, below the level where [[Object-oriented programming| object-oriented methods]] become important.<ref>{{Citation | first = R | last = Wieringa | year = 1998 | title = A survey of structured and object-oriented software specification methods and techniques | publisher = ACM | journal = Comput Surv | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | month date= Dec | year = 1998 | pages = 459–527 | url = http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/299917.299919}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Brian | last1 = Henderson-Sellers | author1-link = Brian Henderson-Sellers | first2 = JM | last2 = Edwards | year = 1990 | title = The object-oriented systems life cycle | journal = Commun | publisher = ACM | volume = 33 | issue = 9 | month date= Sep | year = 1990 | pages = 142–59 | url = http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/83880.84529}}.</ref>

== Introduction ==