Front-End Programming Using the Struts Framework

To take full advantage of the Struts framework, JSP pages within a WebLogic application have to implement Struts tag libraries that allow them to tie into the back end. Tag libraries, covered in depth in the previous chapters, allow custom HTML tags to be implemented within a JSP page. The Struts tag library creates new tags for virtually every HTML tag. This is done to extend these tags to add Struts-specific properties and to simplify programming JSPs for Web developers who might not have Java skills.

Struts applications usually include at least two tag libraries from Struts:

  • struts-html.tld— Contains all the Struts-specific HTML tags

  • struts-bean.tld— Contains all the Struts-specific JavaBean ...

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