JSTL Tutorial Part 2

// demo4.jsp
<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>

Example

<input type=submit>
<c:set var="s" value="${param.combo1}" />
Today is
<br>

<c:choose>
<c:when test="${s==1}">Sunday </c:when>
<c:when test="${s==2}">Monday</c:when>
<c:when test="${s==3}">Tuesday</c:when>
<c:when test="${s==4}">Wednesday</c:when>
<c:when test="${s==5}">Thursday</c:when>

<c:otherwise>
select between 1 & 5
</c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
</body>
</html>

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Demo-5 deals with Iteration tag.
We are familiar with the 'for-each' construct.
JSTL's 'for-each' also has the same functionality.
In the following example, we have a String array. named as 'colors'.
By using the <c:forEach> tag, we iterate through the array and display the values.

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//demo5.jsp
<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<% pageContext.setAttribute("colors",
new String[] {"red","green","blue","orange","black"} ); %>

We get the following display, when we execute the program.

0	1	true	false	red
1	2	false	false	green
2	3	false	false	blue
3	4	false	false	purple
4	5	false	true	black

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<c:forEach> action tag contain the following attribute list:

items : the collection of items like String[]

var : a symbolic name for the collection

begin : the starting index of iteration

end : the ending index of iteration

step : incremental step

varStatus: symbolic name for current status.

If we assign the symbolic name 'a' for the status, we are able to access its properties such as index, count, whether it is first item,

whether it is last item and the current value.

Demo6 also deals with iteration tag.In the following example, the iteration starts at value 3 and ends at value 8 .It displays the values of n in each iteration.Each iteration increments the value of n automatically by 1,if step is not specified.

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demo6.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:forEach var="n" begin="3" end="8" >
<c:out value="${n}" /> <br>
</c:forEach>

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Demo7 deals with JSTL's 'forTokens' tag.<c:forTokens>, which iterates over a string of tokens separated by a set of delimiters like the stringTokenizer class in Java.

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demo7.jsp
<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:set var="s" value="SAM,DELHI,MCA,24,90" />
<html>
<body>
   <table border="1">
   <tr>
   <th>Name</th>
   <th>Place</th>
   <th>Degree</th>
   <th>Age</th>
   <th>Mark</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
<c:forTokens   items="${s}"
   delims=","   var="token" >
   <td><c:out value="${token}" /></td>
</c:forTokens>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
</font>
</body>
</html>
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Name	Place	Degree	Age	Mark
kala	Kkdi	mca	23	87

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The essential attributes of 'forTokens' tag are:

Attribute Description

items The string to tokenize

delims The delimiter characters that separate the tokens of the string.

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Demo8 deals with URL-Related actions.<c:import>action tag imports the conent of a URL-based resource and provides a simple way to access URL-based resources that can either be included or processed within the JSP..
In the following example,the import action tag imports the content of welcome.htm file here.So it displays the contents of demo8.jsp and welcome.htm.

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// welcome.htm
<html>
<body>
WELCOME
<br>
</body>
</html>
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demo8.jsp
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:import url="welcome.htm"/>
<c:out value="to our web-site!" />
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In demo9 we discuss the <c:url> action tag.

<c:url> prints the value of URL.It is easier to construct the hyperlinks.It is useful for session preservation (URL-Encoding).

In the following example,we use <c:url> to make a link to another html file. When we execute demo9, we get a link , with text 'send'.

When we click on the link, we are taken to welcome.htm.

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demo9.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<a href="<c:url value="http://localhost:8080/welcome.htm/>">
send
</a>

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demo10 deals with <c:redirect> action tag.

This tag forwards the browser to the specified URL .

demo10.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:redirect
url="http://localhost:8080/welcome.htm />

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Finally, <c:param> tag is useful to send some parameter value to the page to which redirect occurs. In our example, the code redirects to sample.jsp, but it takes the param named 'a'

with value='SAM' , to the redirected page.
And, the sample.jsp accepts this param and prints it. <c:out value="${param.name1}"/>

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demo11.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:redirect url="http://localhost:8080/jstldemos/
core/sample.jsp" >
<c:param name="name1" value="SAM"/>
</c:redirect>
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( in a different file)
sample.jsp
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:out value="${param.name1}"/>

And to end our whirlwind tour of core-tags in JSTL, here is a demo which mixes EL of JSP-2(Expression Language of JSTL) with 'Expression' (also known as request-time Expression ) of JSP1.2.

demo12.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
JSTL welcomes <br>
<c:out value="${param.text1}" />
<br>
JSP Expression welcomes
<%=request.getParameter("text1") %>

JSTL Tutorial Part 2

JSTL Tutorial Part 2

JSTL Tutorial Part 2

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