Java Server Pages in Modernization

Abstract

One way to improve the maintainability of a web applica-tion is to separate its presentation from the business logic.
Such separation not only makes a web application easier to evolve and maintain, but also allows individual devel-opers
with different skills to cooperate more efficiently. Custom tags are a recent addition to the JSP standard that helps to
facilitate this separation. In this paper, we present a transform to restructure JSP pages by moving embedded Java code
into custom tags without changing the original functionality or user interface. This reduces the complexity of the web
applications, makes them more maintainable and makes best use different skill sets.