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Appendix C. Tag Library

IN THIS APPENDIX

• Tag Library Overview

• What Is a Tag Library?

• The Six Steps to Building Tag Libraries

• Tag Library Concepts

• Building a Tag Library

• General Notes

Tag libraries are a central feature of JSP. Concisely stated, tag libraries permit the JSP programmer to build reusable code that has a simple interface and is easy to package across many JSP projects. More than any other feature of JSP, tag libraries make JSP stand out from any other Web application solution. This appendix will give you a quick overview of what a tag library is and will walk you through the details of how to build them. However, only a brief taste of tag libraries can be given in an appendix of this size. After you get started here, we recommend that ...