JSP Tag Libraries is an extension to Java Server Pages, the java API for web development, that allows a cleaner separation of logic and presentation. This promotes genuine reusability and improves the scope and power of JSP. JSP Tag Libraries teaches you how to create usable, maintainable, and flexible tags. We will teach you good practices, and the design implications of tags, that will enable you to maximise the reusability of your code. This book includes many useful code examples that illustrate the points being made. With the prevalence of material on using of jsp tags, we will not concentrate in detail on using 3rd party tags, but rather aim to take you from writing script-like JSP based applications to creating genuinely object oriented web applications.

Who is this book for?
The book is for any web developer who wishes to create powerful and maintainable JSP applications. You will need to know the basics of JSP in order to follow the material: basic knowledge of sessions, the use of JavaBeans in pages, and some experience with writing JSPs is assumed in the text. This book builds on Beginning JSP Web Development and Professional JSP 2nd Editions by WROX Press.

Contents

• JSP and Tag Extensions
• Simple Tags
• Tag Bodies and Controlling the Page
• Scripting Variables in the Page
• Iteration Tags
• Body Tags
• Cooperating tags
• Tags versus JavaBeans
• Tag Patterns
• Designing Tags and Taglibs
• Deployment
• Case Study
• Third party tags