Borland® JBuilder™ Developer’s Guide

Chapter 18. Tag Libraries

IN THIS CHAPTER

• What Is a Tag Library?

• Integrating a Tag Library into a Web Application

• Tag Library Descriptor (TLD) File

• The Custom Tag Library API

• Servlet and JSP Development Guidelines

In Chapter 17, “Java Server Pages,” we looked at how custom Java code can be used to create dynamic content using the Java Server Pages (JSP) API. As discussed, the JSP API allows Web content to be designed in a similar fashion to an HTML/XML page, but with the power and the functionality of the Java language to assemble dynamic content. This is an improvement over using servlets in that it does not require the content and design to be translated by a programmer into a servlet for compilation prior to use. In our discussion of JSPs, we ...