The following is an example btw:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/taglibs/extended/trunk/

Currnetly it exposes various Commons Lang functions to JSTL using tag functions.

Hen

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Stuart Thiel <stuart.th...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Marcel,
>
> If I understand you correctly, then it is not exactly possible to do what
> you'd like.
>
> More specifically, I believe you're talking about making an EL function (vs.
> JSTL which is a set of third party tags/functions). You can use any public
> static method in any class for this, so it doesn't need to be special in any
> way, but you do need to define it in a tag library so that a JSP page knows
> how to find it. You can isolate a bunch of your utility EL functions in
> their own tag library with their own prefix to avoid polluting your main tag
> libraries, but I would generally organize by cohesion instead (putting
> related tags and functions together in the same tag libraries, following the
> same approach one might do with OO class creation).
>
> I haven't read all of this, but skimming it seemed to satisfy me that the
> basics are covered:
> http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JSPIntro7.html
>
> Stuart
>
> Marcel Overdijk wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering  if it is possible to create a custom JSTL function using a
>> tag
>> file (so not using a tld and tag class).
>>
>> Any reference to an example would be helpful.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marcel
>>
>
>
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