exact diff. or when to use :custom tags and useBeans.

[Jay Nisha]

What is the exact difference between the custom tags and useBeans in jsp? when to use custom tags and when to use useBeans?

[Max Rahder]

Manisha Khatal wrote: What is the exact difference between the custom tags and useBeans in jsp? when to use custom tags and when to use useBeans?

That's a long story. What are you trying to do? My guess is that you'll never need to use <jsp:useBean.../>. That tag was created as part of the first release of JSPs. At that time, even though there was a framework for creating custom tags, there weren't any libraries out there yet. So Sun had to provide some basic functionality.

After JSTL, many of these <jsp:.../> tags became obsolete.

Normally, you're in a MVC framework, such as Struts, and the controller fetches or updates your model, then places objects in scope (using the request, session or application). Your view -- the JSP page -- then displays that information to the user. The easiest way to display those values is using JSTL, such as <h1>${myobject.name}</h1>. (This example runs "getName()" on an object placed in scope with the name "myobject".)