Web Technology: Theory and Practice

6.13 JSP STANDARD TAG LIBRARY

JSP has five standard tag libraries. The core library is called by the same name, generally prefixed with a “c”. Rest of the standard libraries are specialized in its own way.

Area	Subfunction	Prefix
Core	General	c
	Control
	Navigation management
	Iteration
XML	Core	x
	Flow control
	Transformation
I18N	Locale	fmt
	Message formatting
	Number and date formatting
Database	SQL	sql
Functions	Collection length	fn
	String manipulation

The Core library is organized as follows.

• General purpose scripting
  • Examples include c:out, c:set, c:catch
• Conditional/Control
  • Examples include c:if, c:choose, etc
• Iteration
  • Examples include c:forEach, c:forTokens.
• Navigation
  • Examples include c:url, ...