Developing Jsp Custom Tag Libraries

by A. Keyton Weissinger, Keyton Weissinger

For several years now, Java-based server-side web application development has been growing in popularity and acceptance. Unfortunately, with such rapid growth you commonly get code organization and structure problems that lead to difficulties in maintaining and improving the code down the road. Nowhere is this issue more of a problem than with scripting-based web application development methods, and JSP is a frequent offender. Custom tag libraries offer a way out of this potential mess. With Custom Tag Libraries developers can continue writing web applications quickly with JSP, preserving all the power for the Java language, but they do not have to give up organization and maintainability "Developing JSP Custom Tag Libraries" focuses on the implementation of custom tag libraries at the JSP container implementation layer. This is a key distinction from treatment in other books. The various ways you can use custom tag libraries are multitudinous and there are several books that cover ?how? to use custom tags. However, most other books either ignore or gloss over the deep technical details of how custom tags work within the context of the JSP container. But having this deeper understanding leads to better scalability and robustness, which is of critical importance, especially in high-end sites. After reading "Developing JSP Custom Tag Libraries," you will be able to design custom tag libraries with a focus on making them work flawlessly in their JSP container ? regardless of that container. You will also understand enough of the technical underpinnings of custom tag development and processing in the JSP container to help improve your custom tag libraries? performance andscalability.

400 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2005