The expression "Jack of all trades" ends "and master of none," but in the
case of the dotJ Custom Tag Library produced by dotJ Software, it should end
"master of some." The dotJ tag library is the Swiss Army knife of tag
libraries. It provides tags for many different areas of development, from
Model-1 form validation to file uploading and text formatting. But it really
shows its mastery with its tags for generating sortable grids and calendar
widgets.
The dotJ library is a great place to start when planning a new project,
especially for those new to JSP. It provides great baseline functionality in
handling a lot of different aspects of your site. It has specialized tags for
content formatting, e-mail, and forms (including validation), general utility
tags for things like code syntax highlighting and file uploading, and
presentation tags for making graphically rich ... (more)