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09.06.2006 Dynamic Content Creation Techniques for Making Your Content More Interactive Numerous JSP tags use JavaScript to help make their content more vibrantly interactive. Technologies such as AJAX allow for partial page updates and increasing responsiveness. This article delivers an overview of a number of Open Source projects that have the potential to make your content more dynamic and interactive.		03.04.2006 Building Digital Dashboards with JSP Tag Libraries Managing Tomcat with the IO Tag Library Monitoring of a typical Enterprise environment may involve interaction with a complex series of protocols. Within this article I will describe a simplistic approach through the application of the Jakarta IO tag library to monitor and control one server type—Tomcat.

03.04.2006 Why Use Open Source JSP Tag Libraries? Filling the Gaps in Monolithic Java Frameworks Struts and Java Server Faces are extremely popular frameworks that take away common coding chores, especially in a typical Model View Control application. This article discusses how to enhance the value of using such frameworks by the addition of open source JSP tag libraries. I have placed emphasis on the effective coupling of the tags mentioned with the JSF framework.