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J2EE™ Tutorial, The
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J2EE™ Tutorial, The

by Stephanie Bodoff, Dale Green, Kim Haase, Eric Jendrock, Monica Pawlan, Beth Stearns
March 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
528 pages
10h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Using Tags

This section describes how a page author specifies that a JSP page is using a tag library and introduces the different types of tags.

Declaring Tag Libraries

You declare that a JSP page will use tags defined in a tag library by including a taglib directive in the page before any custom tag is used:

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tutorial-template.tld" prefix="tt" %> 

The uri attribute refers to a URI that uniquely identifies the tag library descriptor (TLD), described in the section Tag Library Descriptors (page 290). This URI can be direct or indirect. The prefix attribute defines the prefix that distinguishes tags defined by a given tag library from those provided by other tag libraries.

Tag library descriptor file names must have the ...

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