JSTL/JSP EL alternate Struts excercise solution

The De Post/PMC excercises (and the Struts blank sample application) are based on

• Struts
  • tags-bean
  • tags-logic
  • tags-html
• JSP scriptlets

In this post we will show how to move this to

• Struts
  • tags-html
• JSTL
• JSP expression language

To enable JSTL/JSP/EL support in your application follow these instructions. Here’s the table from the excercise rendered with JSTL/JSP EL:

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<c:forEach  var="product" items="${List}"  varStatus ="status">   <tr class="${(status.index%2==1)?'odd':'even'}">     <td>       <html:link action="<%=modify%>" paramId="id" paramName="product" paramProperty="id">         <html:img srcKey="icon.edit" altKey="icon.alt.edit" border="0"/>       </html:link>      </td>      <td>       <html:link action="<%=remove %>" paramId="id" paramName="product" paramProperty="id">         <html:img srcKey="icon.trash" altKey="icon.alt.trash" border="0"/>       </html:link>     </td>     <td> ${product.name}</td>      <td> ${product.description}</td>   </tr> </c:forEach>