I'm relatively new to JSP, and I've been using Beans to support all the business logic of my applications. However, I'm starting to look at custom tags because the code seems
alot cleaner -- it takes virtually all those annoying scriplets out of your JSP, and moves them to a class where they should be. I'm not sure how these two technologies compare as far as efficiency, but it does seem that custom tags lend themselves to cleaner, more modular code. Hopefully there will be some more posts to discuss this.
WS
Oh yeah, I've been reading some interesting articles on JSTL (beginner tutorials, etc.) at IBM developerWorks:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-taglib/ [ April 01, 2004: Message edited by: Winston Smith ]