Evolution of JSTL-JSP Standard Tag Library As JSP grew in popularity, it became clear that different sites' custom tags fell into familiar, frequently used patterns. For example, many pages needed to loop over data to print tables and lists. Vendors of JSP containers and members of the open-source community tried to address these needs by providing collections of tags --tag libraries--that solved common problems. While many JSP page authors used these libraries, nothing tied them together. To address this fragmentation, the Java Community Process --the same group that now maintains and standardizes JSP itself --decided to offer a standard tag library. JSTL 1.0, to include tags for the following common tasks: •Looping over data to produce tables, lists, etc. •Conditional operations •Importing and processing data from other web pages ...
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