March 2002
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
10h 12m
English
This chapter describes the tasks involved in using and defining tags. The chapter illustrates the tasks with excerpts from the JSP version of the Duke’s Bookstore application discussed in Chapter 11 rewritten to take advantage of two tag libraries: Struts and tutorial-template. The section in this chapter entitled Examples (page 304) describes some tags in detail: the iterate tag from Struts and the set of tags in the tutorial-template tag library.
The Struts tag library provides a framework for building internationalized Web applications that implement the Model-View-Controller design pattern. Struts includes a comprehensive set of utility custom tags for handling
HTML forms
Templates
JavaBeans components
Logic processing ...