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If the result set is large, then having the entire result set in memory will not be feasible. With large result sets, you cannot afford to have them in memory. In such case, you have to fetch a chunk of data at a time (query based paging). The down side of using query based paging, [...]

New Features in JSP 2.0 JSP 2.0 is released with new promises. JSP 2.0 is an upgrade to JSP 1.2 with several new and interesting features. These features makes the life of web application developers and designers easier. The JavaServer Pages 2.0 Specification is fully backwards compatible with version 1.2. JSP 2.0 allows the developer [...]

The Struts community has ordained that JSP should bestrictly a 'view-technology', in the Model-View-Controller Architecture. According to Struts philosophy, JSP should not deal with Data-Accesss and such data accessshould be done by 'Model' components only.( read 'beans'). JSTL , however, provides for sql tags, inspired by ColdFusion! ( please see a very short tutorial on [...]

No one canhave any second opinion about the elegance of xml tags in JSTL. If the readers have been following the earlier installments of this J2EE series of tutorials, they would have come across JAXP,DOM,SAX ,JDOM and such terms, and it mayhave been none too easy to learn. But the xml tags in JSTL , [...]

AsJ2EE programmers, we are familiar with Servlets , JSPand JavaBeans.Any JSP page should encapsulate the business logic in a bean and invoke it by using <jsp:useBean>tag.Till recently, a combination of Servlets, JSP and beans was the standard practice. But, the JCP realeased an API for enabling programmers to create custom tags and use them in [...]

1)Introduction Expression Language was first introduced in JSTL 1.0 (JSP Standard Tag Library ). Before the introduction of JSTL, scriptlets were used to manipulate application data.JSTL introduced the concept of an expression language (EL) which simplified the page development by providing standerd tag libraries. These tag libraries provide support for common, structural tasks, such as: [...]