Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP™ Standard Tag Library

Chapter 5. URL Actions

Topics in This Chapter

• Overview

• The <c:import> Action

• The <c:redirect> Action

• The <c:url> Action

• The <c:param> Action

• Accessing External Resources

• Accessing Resources in Foreign Contexts

• Redirecting a Response

If you've developed Web applications with JavaServer Pages (JSP), you have probably found many uses for <jsp:include> and <jsp:forward>. The former includes the contents of a resource and the latter forwards control to a Web component, such as a servlet or another JSP page. On the other hand, you may have found that those actions have limited capabilities; for example, the URLs that you specify for those actions must be relative URLs, so you cannot use them to access URLs outside your Web application. JSTL provides a set of ...