Custom JSP tags

The Branch Transformation Toolkit provides an extendable set of custom JSP tags that make it easier to create JSPs by limiting the amount of Java(TM) coding required to implement a JSP. The toolkit custom JSP tags are based on the JSP Custom Tags defined in the JSP 1.1 specification. The toolkit uses a tag library to describe the custom tags, their attributes, and their related Java classes (beans). A tag library (a TLD file) is an XML document that externalizes the tags. The toolkit uses the tags to instantiate JSPs based on the attributes of the tags and then render the HTML to display the JSPs.

You use the toolkit custom JSP tags in the same way you use any custom JSP tag that conforms to the JSP 1.1 specification. (If you are using WebSphere(R) Studio Application Developer to develop JSPs, you can see a representation of the tags at design time.)

Most custom JSP tags that the toolkit provides are from Struts. Refer to Configure the Struts Tag Libraries for details about the JSP tags provided by Struts.

The toolkit also provide the some JSP tags that are not from Struts. Read the following topics for details about the JSP tags provided only by the toolkit.