JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Building a Tag Library

Now, let's work through an example, building a tag library for database access. The tag library will take the results from a SQL statement and apply an XSL stylesheet to create formatted output.

Isolating the Business Logic

Chapter 7, “Successfully Using JSP and XML in an Application,” produced several JavaBeans used to take a JDBC ResultSet and produce an XML output. The JavaBeans used are DatabaseParameter.java, XMLFromResult.java, and ProcessDom4J.java. This section will use these JavaBeans to illustrate how convenient it is to reuse code. Answers to any questions you might have regarding how to use or install these beans can be found in Chapter 7.

Building a Tag Handler

We need to build a new tag handler to access the ...