More than anything, slow adoption seems to derive from the newness of tags and the distinct approach to Web design that tag libraries offer. However, this apprehension of custom tags is wearing off, and developers have finally begun to implement tag libraries in greater numbers. Over the next year, a fundamental shift will occur in how most JSP projects are built. By the end of 2001, expect that tag libraries will become a common feature in many JSP projects. The benefits of tag libraries are only briefly discussed in this article.
Tag libraries have many other powerful benefits.
When one steps back to examine the bigger picture, it becomes clear that this is a case of the tail wagging the dog. Tag libraries will drive JSP development into unexpected territory. For JSP developers, this is very exciting, since we have been given a tool to take JSP literally anywhere and build any type of Web application. Tag libraries empower JSP to become one of the richest and most dynamic programming environments available on the Web. It is only a question of where our imagination and inventiveness take us.