Tags Overview

Overview

This document details the design of the custom JSP tags for Jeenius. These tags simplify the use of the Jeenius infrastructure by other applications. The key goal of these tags is to reduce the amount of Java code in the JSP to zero. These tags are design to cover common operations the Jeenius framework. Using the tags The Jeenius tags will be compiled into a single .jar file that can be added to a web application. The .jar file will be named jeeniustags.jar and can be added to a web application using the following steps:

1) Copy jeenius.jar to the web applications WEB-INF/lib folder

2) Add the following to the web application’s web.xml file:

<taglib> <taglib-uri>jeenius</taglib-uri>
  <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/jeenius.jar</taglib-location>
</taglib>

3) Include the following directive at the top of a JSP page that needs to use a custom tag:

<%@ taglib uri="jeenius" prefix="jee" %>