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    Dedication
    Advance praise for Head First Servlets & JSP™
    Praise for Head First EJB™ and the Head First approach
    Praise for the Head First approach
    Perpetrators of the Head First series (and this book)
    Intro
    Ch. 1. Why use Servlets & JSPs?
    Ch. 2. Web App Architecture
    Ch. 3. Mini MVC Tutorial
    Ch. 4. Being a Servlet
    Ch. 5. Being a Web App
    Ch. 6. Conversational state
    Ch. 7. Being a JSP
    Ch. 8. Script-free pages
    Ch. 9. Custom tags are powerful
    Ch. 10. When even JSTL is not enough...
    OBJECTIVES
    Includes and imports can be messy
    Tag Files : like include, only better
    But how do you send it parameters?
    To a Tag File, you don't send request parameters, you send tag attributes !
    Aren't tag attributes declared in the TLD?
    Tag Files use the attribute directive
    When an attribute value is really big
    Declaring body-content for a Tag File
    Where the Container looks for Tag Files
    there are no Dumb Questions
    Sharpen your pencil: Memorizing Tag Files
    When you need more than Tag Files... Sometimes you need Java
    Making a Simple tag handler
    A Simple tag with a body
    The Simple tag API
    The life of a Simple tag handler
    BE the Container
    BE the Container: Answer
    What if the tag body uses an expression?
    A tag with dynamic row data: iterating the body
    A Simple tag with an attribute
    What exactly IS a JspFragment ?
    SkipPageException : stops processing the page ...
    Sharpen your pencil
    SkipPageException shows everything up to the point of the exception
    Sharpen your pencil: But what happens when the tag is invoked from an included page?
    SkipPageException stops only the page that directly invoked the tag
    there are no Dumb Questions
    You still have to know about Classic tag handlers
    Tag handler API
    A very small Classic tag handler
    A Classic tag handler with TWO methods
    When a tag has a body: comparing Simple vs. Classic
    Classic tags have a different lifecycle
    The Classic lifecycle depends on return values
    IterationTag lets you repeat the body
    BE the Container
    Default return values from TagSupport
    BE the Container Answer
    there are no Dumb Questions
    But what if you DO need access to the body contents?
    With BodyTag, you get two new methods
    With BodyTag, you can buffer the body
    Exercise: Lifecycle methods for Classic tag methods
    Exercise Answers: Lifecycle return values for Classic tag methods
    What if you have tags that work together?
    A Tag can call its Parent Tag
    Find out just how deep the nesting goes...
    Simple tags can have Classic parents
    You can walk up, but you can't walk down...
    Getting info from child to parent
    Menu and MenuItem tag handlers
    Getting an arbitrary ancestor
    Exercise: Key differences between Simple and Classic tags
    Exercise Answers: Key differences between Simple and Classic tags
    Using the PageContext API for tag handlers
    Sharpen your pencil: Memorizing Tag Files
    COFFEE CREAM: Mock Exam Chapter 10
    COFFEE CRAM: Chapter 10 Answers
    Ch. 11. Deploying your web app
    Ch. 12. Keep it secret, keep it safe
    Ch. 13. The Power of Filters
    Ch. 14. Enterprise Design Patterns
    Appx. A. Final Mock Exam
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