Aleksandrov's BLOG: JSTL

Create custom tags in JSTL and use them as templates

File structure in folders:
WEB-INF
----jsps
--------home.jsp
--------createproduct.jsp
----tags
--------pagewrapper.tag
----template
--------product.jsp

pagewrapper.tag (Place for static content, general for all pages)

<%@ tag description="Page Wrapper Tag" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ attribute name="title" fragment="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="header" fragment="true" %>
            <jsp:invoke fragment="title"/>
    
    
    


     
         
     
Home
     

</body>
</html>

home.jsp (It has unique attributes of home page such as "title" and "header")

<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %>
    
    
        Page title
    
    
        App name
    
    
                    
          Create product

createproduct.jsp (It includes product.jsp that are general for some pages)

<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="sf" %>
    
        Create product
    
    
        Create product

product.jsp

<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="sf" %>


    

        
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Create custom tags in JSTL and use them as templates