6.1. Using the tag library to build a Book Catalog portlet

Let’s redefine the requirements for the Book Catalog portlet, developed in chapters 3 and 4, to make use of portlet tag library tags. Figure 6.1 shows the modified Home page of the Book Catalog portlet, which you’ll create in this chapter. You’ll be coming back to this figure every so often in this chapter.

Figure 6.1. The Book Catalog portlet’s Home page showing debugging information, including the values of the myaction request attribute, the myaction session attribute, and the uploadFolder portlet initialization parameter, along with the current portlet mode, the window state, and so on

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