Java Web Services Tutorial

Stephanie Bodoff In This Chapter What is a Custom Tag? The Example JSP Pages Using Tags Defining Tags Examples The standard JSP tags for invoking operations on JavaBeans components and performing request...

A custom tag is a user-defined JSP language element. When a JSP page containing a custom tag is translated into a servlet, the tag is...

This chapter describes the tasks involved in using and defining tags. The chapter illustrates the tasks with excerpts from the JSP version of the Duke's...

This section describes how a JSP page uses tags and introduces the different types of tags. To use a tag, a page author must do two...

To define a tag, you need to: Develop a tag handler and helper classes for the tag Declare the tag in a tag library descriptor (TLD) This section...

Each tag in the library is described by giving its name and the class of its tag handler, information on the scripting variables created by...

The custom tags described in this section demonstrate solutions to two recurring problems in developing JSP applications: minimizing the amount of Java programming in JSP...