Career At hSenid: JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

What is JSTL ?

It is a standard library of custom tags. In other words, it is a collection of useful
JSP tags which can remove scriplet code from a JSP page.

According to their functionality, these tags are classified into 5 groups.They are

Core Tags
Formatting Tags
SQL Tags
XML Tags
JSTL Functions

Before discussing on the above topics in detail, let us see how JSTL can be integrated with our existing project

How to integrate JSTL library in the project?

Maven

Step 1: Update pom

<dependency>

    <groupid>javax.servlet</groupid>

    <artifactid>jstl</artifactid>

    <version>1.2</version>

    <scope>runtime</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

    <groupid>taglibs</groupid>

    <artifactid>standard</artifactid>

    <version>1.1.2</version>

    <scope>runtime</scope>

</dependency>

Step 2: Update viewClass

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"></property>

    <property name="prefix">

        <value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>

    </property>

    <property name="suffix">

        <value>.jsp</value>

    </property>

</bean>

Step 3: Use JSTL tags in .jsp file

<h1>Welcome message : <c:out value="${message}"></c:out></h1>

Eclipse

Step 1: Download JARs

Download jstl-1.2.jar (JSP 2.1 containers only i.e. Tomcat 6, otherwise jstl-1.1.jar) fromhttp://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/servlet/jstl/1.2/

or
the interfaces (javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-api-1.2.1.jar) fromhttp://search.maven.org/#browse|707331597 and the actual implementing classes (javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.2.jar) from http://search.maven.org/#browse%7C-1002239589.

Step 2: Copy JARs