A JSTL primer, Part 2: Getting down to the core

Flow control and URL management through custom tags

Mark Kolb (mak@taglib.com), Software Engineer

Summary:  The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) core library, as its name suggests, provides custom tags for basic functionality, such as managing scoped variables and interacting with URLs, as well as for fundamental operations like iteration and conditionalization. Not only can these tags be leveraged directly by page authors, but they also provide a foundation for more complex presentation logic in combination with the other JSTL libraries. Mark Kolb continues his exploration into JSTL and the core library with a look at tags to assist with flow control and URL management.

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