JSTL and EL Programming

Introduction to JSTL

JSTL is the JSP Standard Tag Library. JSTL is a collection of custom tag libraries. JSTL provides common functionality that many web applications need. It provides support for presentation logic, formatting, XML support and database access.

There are five groups under which the JSTL tag libraries have been organized. They are as follows:

1. core
2. xml
3. sql
4. formatting
5. functions

CORE TAGS IN JSTL

The following tags are available in the core library:

• <c:set
• <c:out
• <c:if test=
• <c:choose, <c:when , <c:otherwise
• <c:forEach
• <c:forTokens
• <c:import
• <c:url
• <c:redirect
• <c:param

JSTL and EL Programming