An excellent article explaining custom tags in JSP2

This is an excellent article explaining custom tags in JSP2:
http://www.vsj.co.uk/java/display.asp?id=408

The custom tag development has been simplified and the complicated java API is no longer needed to develop a custom tag. A *.tag file is created instead.

JSP custom tags are an advantage in the JSP language that does not exist in other web technologies I'm aware of (ie. PHP).

Goodbye PHP. With Love, Basil.

I dropped PHP, in favor of wonderful JSP. Yes, yes and yes. After too many thoughts, and too many oooofss, its time my friend to start from the end.

Frankly speaking, I have about a thousand reasons why I dropped PHP. Half of them arise from the -ve's (negatives) of the PHP language, and the rest comes from the +ve's of the Java language and the wonderful Java programming mindset.

I wont name them here, you can call me on skype to discuss this if you like. But, I dont even have the time to complain about PHP in this blog. We had good times together, but at the end, leaving this language (from my perspective) is a mindful correct decision. The decision is not a religious one, I might still 'have' to use it in several occasions eg. quick small web-apps, hosting code, scripts, and current codebases.