WebSphere Commerce JSP programming best practices

These Commerce-specific best practices are intended to be used in conjunction with the common Web application development standards and practices, such as those associated with the Java EE at a Glance technology and the JavaServer Pages technology, as well as with general principles and conventions of WebSphere Commerce.

• JSP programming best practice: Use JSTL in place of Java code
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use the Commerce-specific tag for bean activation
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use Commerce-specific maps to access request parameters
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use the StoreErrorDataBean data bean for error handling
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use an appropriate inclusion mechanism
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use the .jspf extension for JSP segments
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use the escapeXml attribute to preserve HTML formatting
  

• JSP programming best practice: Ensure XHTML-compliance
  

• JSP programming best practice: Use the post method for form submission