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A design with associated design templates and JSP files comes standard with XperienCentral. Example Design Layout shows a schematic picture of standard layout. Page parts are also indicated. The standard layout is useful because it contains many tasks already pre-programmed. Before creating your own design, examine the standard layout.
The XperienCentral API, Tags and JSTL
One of the most important parts of the Design SDK is the XperienCentral design API which defines the interface between an application and a service. In the XperienCentral context, the web pages, as the end user sees them, are the "application" and XperienCentral is the service.
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Besides the XperienCentral taglib, third party taglibs can be used, such as the JSTL taglibs. JSTL taglibs allow the use of statements such as if-then, choose, and forEach in a JSP. Other functions are used to format dates, to use locales, and to execute queries. See Example Design Layout - 1 for more documentation about these taglibs.