12.1. Using JSTL: An Overview
The standard tag library consists of two sublibraries. Each of the two sublibraries contains tags for general looping, iterating over the elements in a variety of data structures, evaluating items conditionally, and setting attributes or scripting variables.
The jr and jx Libraries
The first thing to understand about JSTL is that it consists of two nearly identical libraries. The first, the “jr” library, permits request time expressions as the values of its attributes. That is, it specifies rtexprvalue="true" in the attribute definitions of the TLD file. The second library, the “jx” library, uses a shorthand expression language to access page attributes and bean properties. In this library, “ $ ” indicates access ...
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