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Title: Not what I expected--look carefully
Review: I was looking for a book that explained custom tag libraries in more depth and provided several rich examples. I thought this was the ticket and was convinced based on other reviews. Two things really disappointed me: 1) at least half the book is a reference of Apache and Sun's JSP library--not what I need; 2) of the remaing half off the book, fewer than 90 pages talk about custom tags (the rest is background material). So in a nutshell what I got was a 90 page book which didn't seem to explain things more than other books that I already had. With hind-sight 20:20, I should have just stuck with my "Java Server Pages" book by Fields/Kolb.
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