Java Server Pages from scratch

Next Steps

In this chapter you learned how to provide extra reusability and maintainability in your JSPs using the tag library feature. Custom tags are to JSPs what JavaBeans are to the Java programming language. I expect that soon vendors will be providing off-the-shelf custom tag libraries that you can use in your JSPs.

So far you learned to use simple actions—actions with body and nested actions. In the next chapter, you will learn how to use databases in your application to build a user registration and extend the monthly calendar to show events as well. You will also build co-operating and iterative action tags for database access.