I met Fred and John and they asked about doing clever image manipulation on the client-side, but without requiring the client to run anything but a web browser. It seemed like doing a few tricks with ImageIO on the server-side would solve the problem, and it'd eliminate the piles of JScript they had been working on. Here is the code so that others can easily write servlets that manipulate and...
I think I've decided that custom tags aren't worth your time. Certainly 'classic' custom tags, pre JSP 2.0, are ridicuously hard to use regardless of if you'd actually want to use them. I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about custom tags in general. Simple tags, .tag files, and the whole custom tag mechanism.
We have the JSTL, which includes a few helpful tags that take care of iteration...
Why is it that the first servlet people teach is one that produces static content? HelloWorld.html is appropriate. HelloWorld.java is silly. The more JSP/Servlets I do, the more frustrated I get when I see others do a mediocre job of introducing the important concepts. Sure it is important to teach that code goes in WEB-INF/classes and all the other beginner's stuff, but it certainly doesn't...
