Description: The future of JSP development is here, and its name is the JSP Standard Tag Library. JSTL provides a set of standardized JSP custom actions to handle the tasks needed in almost all JSP pages, including conditional pro- cessing, internationalization, database access, and XML processing. This week on ONJava.com, Hans Bergsten, author of O\'Reilly\'s \"JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition,\" starts a series of articles on the new JSTL specification. This article gives an overview of JSTL and shows how to use the most common JSTL actions.