Now we’re cooking! This chapter introduced the concept of custom tags and the standard tag library now part of the JSP specification. These tags give page authors full control over what the user ends up seeing, by providing the means to show arbitrary values, repeat a section of a page as many times as needed, conditionally remove a section of page, or choose from many possible sections. In the next chapter, we’ll see how these tags, together with beans, allow Java News Today to build its site.