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Need for JSTL and its modules

Need for JSTL and its modules

From the course: Java EE: Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)

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Need for JSTL and its modules

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- [Instructor] Now that we have looked at the JSP Standard actions and the expression language, let's look at the bigger piece that we have which is JavaServer Pages Tag Library. So as the name suggest, it's a library of tags and it's a huge bundle of tags that can accomplish the core functionalities of your web application for your JSP pages. So as we said earlier, that the JavaServer Pages are going to be helping us to display data, to help us to sort and evaluations on the fly. So all of that is possible with expression language, of course, and now there's a bigger bundle of tags that we have, which is JSTL. Now this entire set of tags comes bundled up or encapsulated in a Java archive. It's a .jar file which is outside the servlet-api.jar so it has to be externally downloaded and then you have to add it to the bill part of our project. And, in one of our previous videos we are actually talked about directives. We had talked about the page directive, the include directive, and we…

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