A convenient, but not complete, reference for JSPs

Other References

• Sun's JSP Syntax Reference

• JSTL

  • Jade Cove JSTL Quick Reference (13-page pdf) by Bill Siggelkow

  • JSTL Reference (20-page pdf) by Shawn Bayern, from JSTL in Action (1930110529)

  • The JSTL Expression Language by David M. Geary, from Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library (0131001531)

• Struts tags

  • Bean taglib

  • HTML taglib

Includes

Include directive http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref11.fm6.html

 <%@ include file="filename.jspf" %>

includes jsp fragment textually at translation (to servlet) time.

Include action http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref11.fm11.html

 <jsp:include page="page.jsp" flush="true" />

dynamically includes at runtime.

JSTL import http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/c/import.html

 <c:import url="./copyright.html"/>
 <c:import url="http://www.somewhere.com/hello.xml"/>

dynamically includes from anywhere at runtime.

Writing a value

Expressions http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref11.fm4.html

 <%= stringBean %>
 <%= objectBean.someMethod() %>

Jakarta struts bean tag http://struts.apache.org/struts-taglib/tagreference-struts-bean.html

 <bean:write name="someBean" property="propertyName" />     <!-- write the property itself -->

 <bean:message name="someBean" property="propertyName" />   <!-- write the value from the  -->
                                                            <!-- message bundle, using the -->
                                                            <!-- property as the key       -->

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