SimpleExample.jsp Page that uses the ExampleTag custom tag.

SimpleExample.jsp Page that uses the ExampleTag custom tag.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!-- 
Illustration of very simple JSP custom tag. 

Taken from Core Web Programming Java 2 Edition
from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
.
May be freely used or adapted. 
-->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<%@ taglib uri="cwp-taglib.tld" prefix="cwp" %>
<TITLE><cwp:example /></TITLE>
<LINK REL=STYLESHEET
      HREF="JSP-Styles.css"
      TYPE="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1><cwp:example /></H1>
<cwp:example />
</BODY>
</HTML>


ExampleTag

package cwp.tags;

import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
import java.io.*;

/** Very simple JSP tag that just inserts a string
 *  ("Custom tag example...") into the output.
 *  The actual name of the tag is not defined here;
 *  that is given by the Tag Library Descriptor (TLD)
 *  file that is referenced by the taglib directive
 *  in the JSP file.
 *  <P>
 *  Taken from Core Web Programming Java 2 Edition
 *  from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
 *  .
 *  May be freely used or adapted.
 */

public class ExampleTag extends TagSupport {
  public int doStartTag() {
    try {
      JspWriter out = pageContext.getOut();
      out.print("Custom tag example " +
                "(cwp.tags.ExampleTag)");
    } catch(IOException ioe) {
      System.out.println("Error in ExampleTag: " + ioe);
    }
    return(SKIP_BODY);
  }
}