3.7. Defining Custom JSP Tag Libraries
JSP 1.1 introduced an extremely valuable new capability: the ability to create your own JSP tags. You define how a tag, its attributes, and its body are interpreted, then group your tags into collections called tag libraries that can be used in any number of JSP files. The ability to define tag libraries in this way permits Java developers to boil down complex server-side behaviors into simple and easy-to-use elements that content developers can easily incorporate into their JSP pages. This section introduces the basic capabilities of custom tags. New features introduced in JSP 1.2 are covered in Chapter 11 (New Tag Library Features in JSP 1.2).
Custom tags accomplish some of the same goals as beans that ...
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