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Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library | ||
By David M. Geary | ||
Publisher | : Prentice Hall PTR | |
Pub Date | : November 26, 2002 | |
ISBN | : 0-13-100153-1 | |
Pages | : 608 | |
Slots | : 1 |
Using JSTL, software developers and Web page authors can create robust, flexible Web applications more quickly and easily than ever before. Now, best-selling author and JSTL expert David Geary presents the definitive guide to JSTL: its built-in tags, powerful expression language, and extensibility. Through practical examples and extensive sample code, Geary demonstrates how JSTL simplifies , streamlines, and standardizes a wide range of common Web development tasks and helps you build Web applications far more easily than JavaServer Pages technology alone.
Key topics covered:
Building HTML forms; accessing form data, JavaBeans components (beans), collections, and maps; constructing URLs and importing their content; redirecting HTTP responses; iterating over collections of objects; handling errors
Localizing Web sites for multiple languages and countries , including localizing text and formatting and parsing numbers , currencies, percents, and dates.
Creating and accessing data sources, making queries and iterating over the results; performing database inserts , updates, and deletes; executing database transactions
Parsing XML documents; using XPath with JSTL custom actions; transforming XML with XSLT, filtering XML; accessing external entities