Keith Devens .com - Weblog (entry #3301) The more things you can specify declaratively -- in other words, what you want to happen rather than how -- the more flexible your program will be.

Absolutely. I have been distressed by the huge amount of code and effort required to create straight forward database frontends. To solve this problem, I have been playing around with some declarative-style custom JSP tags. The advantage of using JSP tags is that if the declarative tags can't handle some tricky situation, the author can always drop back to straight, imperative style JSP.