Iterative Tags
One of the problems with processing dynamic data is that HTML and JSP tags do not support repetitive data very well. There is no way of defining the layout of one row of data and asking for this to be applied to all subsequent rows; each row has to be defined explicitly in the page.
Iterative custom tags interact with the processing of the start and end tags to ask for the tag body to be processed again, and again, and again….
An iterative tag must implement the IterationTag interface. This is most commonly achieved by sub-classing the BodyTagSupport class. The doAfterBody() method must return IterationTag.EVAL_BODY_AGAIN to process the body again or Tag.SKIP_BODY to stop the iteration. Typically, the doAfterBody() method will ...
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