Using Custom Tags in JSP
With JSP version 1.1, custom tag libraries were introduced. These tag libraries provide a facility for creating custom JSP page tags. They provide a facility in which a common, well-understood approach to page programming, the page tag, can be used to access custom behaviors programmed in Java.
Tags provide a great deal of flexibility and are very effective in hiding the specifics of the operation from the user. For this reason, tags are an excellent mechanism for providing access to business logic to the HTML developer.
These tags resemble HTML tags in the use of a tag name, tag attributes, and a tag body, using the following syntax:
<myTag:tagName attribute1="value" attribute2="value"> optional tag body </myTag:tagName> ...
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