Small Values of Cool: JSTL resources

February 17, 2004

JSTL resources

I'm having mixed feelings about JSTL. In many ways, it's really nice. But it's a bugger to debug. And I've had trouble locating good docs.

Here's what I've found:

From onJava.com. JSTL 1.0: Standardizing JSP, Part 1, What JSP Applications Need, Part 2 and What JSP Applications Need, Part 3.
From IBM's developerWorks, A JSTL primer, Part 1: The expression language, Part 2: Getting down to the core, Part 3: Presentation is everything and Part 4: Accessing SQL and XML content
A JSTL reference (PDF), from JSTL in Action. Anyone got this book, BTW? Any good?

Is there any good stuff I'm missing?

BTW, one of the tings that I like about JSTL is that any class implementing the java.util.Map interface can have its attributes referenced by EL's dot operator. Nice.

Posted to Java by Simon Brunning at February 17, 2004 01:40 PM

Comments

Some good links there.
I tend to use the spec which is linked from the Sun JSTL page but I can't find a direct link to it now.

I have been using it for about a year.
My only gripes are the debugging (as you say) and the age it takes to recompile (although that might be a resin thing).
My blog also contains one or two minor complaints, just search it for JSTL.

Posted by: Darren on February 17, 2004 08:04 PM