JSTL - Practical Guide for JSP Programmers

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 What Exactly Is the JSTL?

1.2 Why a JSP Standard Tag Library?

1.3 Why Now?

1.4 Why You Really Want to Use the JSTL

1.5 The Need for Encapsulation

1.6 Functional Overview

1.7 JSTL Tag Libraries

1.8 Getting Ready to Use the JSTL

1.9 The Road to the JSTL

1.10 Servlets to the Rescue

1.11 Hello My Friend Servlet

1.12 JavaServer Pages

1.13 When a JSP, When a Servlet?

1.14 Evolving JSP

1.15 Custom Actions in Action

1.16 The Power of Tag Libraries

1.17 Making Life Easier, JSTL in Action

Chapter 2. JSTL Basics

2.1 Environment Setup

2.2 Using the Book Examples

2.3 JSP Scopes

2.4 JSTL Scoped Variables

2.5 Dynamic and Static Attributes

2.6 Handling Errors and Exceptions

2.7 Action Body Content

2.8 Configuration Settings

2.9 The Config Class

2.10 Summary

Chapter 3. Using the Expression Language

3.1 Implicit Objects Available in the EL

3.2 Accessing Data Structures

3.3 EL Operators

3.4 Automatic Type Conversion

3.5 Default Values

3.6 Summary

Chapter 4. Working with the Core Actions

4.1 Writing Output to the JspWriter

4.2 Setting Variables

4.3 Removing Variables

4.4 Using

4.5 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions„Conditional Actions

4.6 Handling Iterators

4.7 URL-Related Actions

4.8 Untangling the Web We Weave

4.9 Redirecting

4.10 Summary

Chapter 5. Working with the XML Actions

5.1 Overview of Supporting Technologies

5.2 eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

5.3 eXtenstible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

5.4 XML Path Language (XPath)

5.5 Variable Mappings

5.6 Using the Select Attribute

5.7 Accessing Resources

5.8 extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)

5.9 Parsing XML Documents

5.10 Using and

5.11 and in Action

5.12 Using XML Documents to Determine Flow Control

5.13 Going Loopy with

5.14 XML Transformation Actions

5.15 Transforming Content

5.16 Providing Parameters to Transformations

5.17 Summary

Chapter 6. Working with the Internationalization and Formatting Actions

6.1 Locales

6.2 Why be Language Independent?

6.3 Localizing an Application Using Resource Bundles

6.4 Types of I18N Architectures

6.5 First, the Action

6.6 Localization Context

6.7 Localization Context Sample

6.8 Preferred Locales

6.9 Formatting Locales

6.10 How Resource Bundles are Decided

6.11 Resource Bundle Lookup Samples

6.12 Using the LocaleSupport Class

6.13 Setting and Using Locales

6.14 Using Messages and Resource Bundles

6.15 Setting the Resource Bundle for

6.16 Adding a parameter to

6.17 Formatting Actions

6.18 Setting and Using Time Zones

6.19 Working with Timestamps

6.20 Formatting and Parsing Timestamps

6.21 Using and Parsing Timestamps

6.22 Working with Numbers

6.23 Encoding the Client Response

6.24 Summary

Chapter 7. SQL Tag Library Using the SQL Actions

7.1 The Available Actions

7.2 Working with the Data Source

7.3 Configuring a Data Source

7.4 Using a Data Source

7.5 Maxrows Configuration Setting

7.6 Configuring and Using a Data Source

7.7 How to Modify Data

7.8 Interfaces and Classes

7.9 Finding What You Need with

7.10 Passing Parameters to SQL Statements

7.11 Working with Result Sets

7.12 Dealing with Transactions

7.13 Action

7.14 How to Use

7.15 Summary

7.16 Conclusion

Chapter 8. JSTL Quick Reference

8.1 Expression Language Syntax

8.2 Configuration Settings

8.3 Core Tag Library

8.4 XML Tag Library

8.5 SQL Tag Library

8.6 I18N Tag Library

Index