  This paper presents a selected review of the (e,e'p) experimental program
recently completed at the Jefferson Laboratory in the domain of high momentum
transfer and high recoil momentum. Particular emphasis is put on the current
understanding of the reaction mechanisms and of the large final state
interaction effects. Their consequences on the study of the nuclear wave
function and nucleon-nucleon correlations are addressed. The short and long
term future of the (e,e'p) experimental program is also discussed in the
perspective of the study of the quark and gluon structure of nucleons and
nuclei.
