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More JSTL Examples

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This article contains some more JSTL Examples. To begin with, the three tags that provide the functionality of the switch…case statement in Java are discussed.

c:choose Tag

Basically this tag work like the switch…case statement in Java and provides a mutually exclusive conditional operations.

c:when Tag

Likewise, the c:when tag works as a Case statement in switch….case statement of Java. Therefore, witin the c:choose tag, we can specify several c:when tags according to the conditions we want to check.

c:otherwise Tag

Similarly, c:otherwise works like default statement in switch..case. So, we provide it to specify the set of statements when all the conditions specified in c:when tags don’t match. The following code shows an example of c:choose, c:when, and c:otherwise tags.

JSTL Examples of c:choose, c:when, and c:otherwise

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>c:choose Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:set var="choice" value="78"/>
<c:choose>
  <c:when test = "${choice>90}">
     <c:out value="A+"/>
  </c:when>
    <c:when test = "${choice>80}">
     <c:out value="A"/>
  </c:when>
    <c:when test = "${choice>70}">
     <c:out value="B+"/>
  </c:when>
    <c:when test = "${choice>65}">
     <c:out value="B"/>
  </c:when>
    <c:when test = "${choice>55}">
     <c:out value="C"/>
  </c:when>
    <c:when test = "${choice>40}">
     <c:out value="D"/>
  </c:when>
   <c:otherwise>
     <c:out value="F"></c:out>
   </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
</body>
</html>

Output

Example of c:choose, c:when, and c:otherwise JSTL Tags
Example of c:choose, c:when, and c:otherwise JSTL Tags

c:forTokens Tag

Meanwhile, suppose we have a string and we want to break it into tokens, then we can use the c:forTokens tag. Basically, this tag iterates through all the tokens which are separated by specified delimiters in a string. the following code shows an example of this tag.

JSTL Examples of c:forTokens

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>c:forTokens Example</title>
</head>
<body>
 <c:forTokens items="ab;bc;cd;de;ef;fg;gh" delims=";" var="i">
   <c:out value="${i}"/>
   <br/>
 </c:forTokens>
</body>
</html>

Output

Example of c:forTokens JSTL Tag
Example of c:forTokens JSTL Tag

c:catch Tag

Basically, the c:catch tag handles the run-time exceptions and gracefully indicates the description of errors. In other words, this tag catches any exception that occurs in the body. The following code shows an example of c:catch tag.

JSTL Examples of c:catch

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>c:catch Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:catch var="cep">
   <%
      int x=78/0;
   %>
</c:catch>
<c:if test="${cep!=null}">
   <c:out value="Exception: ${cep}"/>
   <br/>
   <c:out value="${cep.message}"/>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>

Output

Example of c:catch JSTL Tag
Example of c:catch JSTL Tag
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