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Chapter 12. The JSP Standard Tag Library

Topics in This Chapter

• Downloading and installing the standard JSP tag library

• Reading attributes without using Java syntax

• Accessing bean properties without using Java syntax

• Looping an explicit number of times

• Iterating over various data structures

• Checking iteration status

• Iterating with string-based tokens

• Evaluating expressions conditionally

• Using the expression language to set attributes

The JSR-052 Expert Group, operating under the Java Community Process, is developing a standard tag library for JSP 1.2 and later. This library, the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), provides standard iteration, conditional-evaluation, and expression-language tags. It also provides simplified access to attributes of the ...