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at our servlet example and converted it to use JSP. We also looked briefly at
the syntax for JSP tags and the JSTL, but encouraged you to do more reading
on this topic.
19.6
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We didn't yet discuss the spelling of JavaServer Pages. If you've read through
this chapter, you may have noticed that there is no space between Java and
Server but there is a space between Server and Pages. If you've read this chapter,
you may also have some idea of why it's spelled this way: It's the JavaServer
that's doing the work—serving up the Pages. OK, it's not a huge deal, but it is
worth knowing how to spell something kerectly, rite?
There are volumes that we could have written about tag libraries. Large
scale projects, and any project with a database connection behind it, will find
tag libraries invaluable at providing standard mechanisms for database access.
Check out the resources, below, for more information on tag libraries.
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Some of the best material on JavaServer Pages comes from two of the topic we
mentioned in the previous chapter. You now understand how interrelated the
two topics of servlets and JSP are, and these two books cover both topics
very well:
•
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages
by Marty Hall and Larry Brown, ISBN
0-13-009229-0, a Prentice Hall PTR book.
• Its sequel,
More Servlets and JavaServer Pages
by Marty Hall, ISBN
0-13-067614-1, also by Prentice Hall PTR.
As we said, the topic of tag libraries is huge, and just writing about JSTL
could fill it's own volume. It has. We recommend:
•
Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library
by David Geary, ISBN
0-13-100153-1, Sun Microsystems Press.
