15.4. Working with the JSTL
The JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library has been under development for some time (more than two years to arrive at version 1.0). It answers many of the concerns you may have had upon learning that JSP had only a few core tags. The purpose of the JSTL is to provide standard iteration, conditional evaluation, XML processing, database access, and expression-language tags.
While there sadly is not world enough and time to go into the JSTL in detail, you're a ColdFusion developer, so I don't think we'll need to. What you need to know is how to get it and install it. Once you've got it, it is very easy to poke around and start using it. But you need to do these things to start using JSTL:
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