The ICJD Conference and Expo is expected to attract more than 5,000 Java professionals worldwide, and more than 200 leading Java vendors are expected to exhibit there. Well, now you can have it. Actually, it's not quite that simple, but with Tango 2000's introduction of the custom tags feature, chances are that with a little work on your part you can have those tags you've been dreaming of. In this article we'll go step by step through the process of defining a custom tag. One problem I've always come up against when developing an application is finding a standard way to manage different lists of data associated with diverse areas of the programming solution.
Various applications require simple lists such as pop-up menus and selection lists on HTML forms.
And it was in one of these inevitable conversations that a friend relayed a story about a Web development conference he had gone to. It was a conference for one of the big Java-based Web servers, no need to specify here which one. Gary Allison Spring's a time of renewal, something that takes place in our business about every four to six months. But spring just seems so much more of an appropriate time to take on something new. In this article, the first in a three-part series, we'll first craft a JavaBean to query your JVM's system properties and then a Tango application file to display the results.