Address Book Tag Library: Overview

This tag library implements a collection of tags that enable address book access to any class of device that utilizes a markup style presentation system.

The Address Book Tag Libraries consists of the following tags:

Context

This tag is used to maintain state between requests, and must be present on a JSP before any other address book tag may be used.

Commands

The following tags perform an action or command on the address book service:

Beans & Collections

The following tags provide access to address book data:

The entries, contacts, groupmembers, and memberchoices collection tags behave more-or-less the same.  However, these collections were designed in anticipation of a fairly specific pattern of usage.  To summarize:
The entry, contact, groupmember, and memberchoice bean tags behave more-or-less the same.  Generically, they can all reference address book entries. However, there are two different kinds of entries:  contacts and groups.  The bean that is used to store each type of entry provides access to a different set of properties.  The different type of entry beans may be distinguished from one another using the "elementType" property.