Sitting back this Father’s Day morning, sipping on a nice Mexican Java thinking about a small application I worked on last week. I recently started using Java’s JSTL tag libraries for most of our applications. Basically they are a set of tags that make your life easier as a developer. The homepage from sun is located here: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/ A short description from that Sun page describes the tags:

“JSTL has support for common, structural tasks such as iteration and conditionals, tags for manipulating XML documents, internationalization tags, and SQL tags.”

Anyway familiar with Java Tag Libraries for JSP’s will likely find these packages interesting and useful. For me, I find it’s nice and eliminates some of the code that is sometimes used for building a webapp that connects to a Database, display information, has forms, etc. I’ve included a couple links to some examples of how the tags can be used below. Once you get familiar with how to set them up and get them running, it’s best just to start playing around with them and looking at other examples. Here are some links, I hope this is useful for some.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/java-standard-tag-library
http://www.developer.com/java/ejb/article.php/1447551

Cheers!

– Adrian