JavaBeans or Custom Tag Libraries: Tips on Usage
JavaBeans and custom tag libraries are two different approaches to the same problem: how to extend the Java code on the JSP page. Since we would like to keep the use of scriptlets on the JSP page to a minimum, we need some mechanism to make use of Java helper classes on the JSP page. JavaBeans provide this capability in such a way that almost any valid Java class could be made into a JavaBean. The only requirement is that any properties accessed using the JSP getProperty or setProperty tag would require the coding of get and set methods in the class, using a specific naming convention, but this is not required.
The use of tag libraries with JSP pages is more restrictive in terms of the coding effort ...
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