JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
Release: Beta 2

Thanks for downloading the JSTL Beta 2 release.  We hope you find the tags,
documents, and examples here of interest.  We're curious to hear your
feedback on this release, which represents work in progress toward a
standard JSP Tag Library.  Please contact us at

	mailto:jsr052-comments@sun.com

with any comments you might have.

BINARY DISTRIBUTION

This is the binary distribution of the Beta 2 JSTL reference
implementation.

To use this distribution with your web applications, simply copy the JAR
files in the 'lib' directory to your application's WEB-INF/lib directory.
Then, import JSTL into your pages with the following directives:

  CORE LIBRARY
    EL:  <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
    RT:  <%@ taglib prefix="c_rt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %>

  XML LIBRARY
    EL:  <%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml" %>
    RT:  <%@ taglib prefix="x_rt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml_rt" %>

  FMT LIBRARY 
    EL:  <%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" %>
    RT:  <%@ taglib prefix="fmt_rt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt_rt" %>

  SQL LIBRARY
    EL:  <%@ taglib prefix="sql" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql" %>
    RT:  <%@ taglib prefix="sql_rt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql_rt" %>

Please join the taglibs-user@jakarta.apache.org mailing list if you have
general usage questions about JSTL.

Enjoy!

  -- Shawn Bayern <bayern@essentially.net>
     on behalf of JSR-052 (JSTL) Expert Group