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2. Using the Tutorial Examples
3. Getting Started with Web Applications
5. JavaServer Pages Technology
7. JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library
Flow Control Tags in the Core Tag Library
Internationalization Tag Library
Further Information about JSTL
10. JavaServer Faces Technology
11. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in JSP Pages
12. Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology
13. Creating Custom UI Components
14. Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications
15. Internationalizing and Localizing Web Applications
16. Building Web Services with JAX-WS
17. Binding between XML Schema and Java Classes
19. SOAP with Attachments API for Java
21. Getting Started with Enterprise Beans
23. A Message-Driven Bean Example
24. Introduction to the Java Persistence API
25. Persistence in the Web Tier
26. Persistence in the EJB Tier
27. The Java Persistence Query Language
28. Introduction to Security in the Java EE Platform
29. Securing Java EE Applications
31. The Java Message Service API
32. Java EE Examples Using the JMS API
36. The Coffee Break Application
37. The Duke's Bank Application
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Chapter 7
JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library
The JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) encapsulates core functionality common to many JSP applications. Instead of mixing tags from numerous vendors in your JSP applications, JSTL allows you to employ a single, standard set of tags. This standardization allows you to deploy your applications on any JSP container supporting JSTL and makes it more likely that the implementation of the tags is optimized.
JSTL has tags such as iterators and conditionals for handling flow control, tags for manipulating XML documents, internationalization tags, tags for accessing databases using SQL, and commonly used functions.
This chapter demonstrates JSTL through excerpts from the JSP version of the Duke’s Bookstore application discussed in the earlier chapters. It assumes that you are familiar with the material in the Using Custom Tags section of Chapter 5, JavaServer Pages Technology.
This chapter does not cover every JSTL tag, only the most commonly used ones. Please refer to the reference pages at http://download.oracle.com/javaee/5/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/ for a complete list of the JSTL tags and their attributes.
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