Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:46:23 -0400 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech meeting 7pm Tues 5/16 on JSP 1.1 & tag extension Hi everybody. This is a reminder to mark your calendars for the upcoming WebTech meeting on Tuesday, May 16, starting at 7:00pm. It will be held at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Details and directions are available at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech. I'd like to invite anyone interested in gathering for dinner before the meeting at the Green Papaya restaurant in the Bertucci's plaza on Winter Street in Waltham. Let me know by email if you plan to join in. The feature presentation this month will be given by Clement Wong from Allaire Corp. on JavaServer Pages and the new JSP 1.1 tag extension features. JavaServer Pages has emerged as an important standard for dynamically generated web pages, and the new tag extension dramatically enhances the expressive power available to its users. Clement Wong and others at Allaire have played an important role in shaping the specification and in guiding the JSP technology. Here are some of the details. I hope to see you there! Abstract: In JSP 1.0, JSP developers use JSP/JavaBean model to separate content presentation from back-end processing. JSP 1.1 introduces a more elegant way to achieve the same goal: tag extension. With tag extension, JSP developers can write custom tags to access databases, send email notifications, generate html/wml codes from query results, etc.. This presentation will focus on the technical aspect of this exciting technology and Allaire's effort on proposing a tag library standard to Sun. About the speaker: Clement Wong is a senior software engineer at Allaire. He is one of the original JRun team members from Live Software, which was acquired by Allaire a year ago. He has lots of experiences in i18n/l10n, custom tag design and implementation.