March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
29h 2m
English
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Chapter 7Using the Java Standard Tag Library
- Understanding JSP tags and the JSTL
- How to implement the Core tag library (C namespace)
- How to use the Formatting tag library (FMT namespace)
- How to use the Database Access tag library (SQL namespace)
- How to use the XML Processing tag library (XML namespace)
- Swapping Java code with JSP tags
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You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at http://www.wrox.com/go/projavaforwebapps on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:
- Address-Book Project
- Address-Book-i18n Project
- Customer-Support-v5 Project
NEW MAVEN DEPENDENCIES FOR THIS CHAPTER
There are no new Maven dependencies for this chapter. Continue to use the Maven dependencies introduced in all previous chapters.
INTRODUCING JSP TAGS AND THE JSTL
Up to this point it has been absolutely necessary to use Java to do certain things in JSPs. The ability to add Java to your JSPs is convenient to be sure, but remember that your UI developers, accustomed to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, will likely not write Java code. Your goal is to have Java-free JSPs, but so far you do not have the tools to do that yet. The Expression Language was helpful in replacing some Java code, but you experienced in the last chapter how much you still have to rely on Java code even using EL. In fact, you really haven’t even tapped in to the power of EL yet because you are still too limited ...
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