another problem with custom tags and struts is that u can't easily insert a print statement to figure out what is going on.

it seems to be a good rule of thumb to either have the validate or input attribute on any action class. it was causing me problems??? null form parameter to perform?

Struts is crap. For instance you have to change the attribute class to styleClass. These little differences are virtually indistinguishable, and difficult to remember. Here is the html-struts reference.

Oracle's JDeveloper has hella support for struts... it has code insight and pallets for custom tags. but currently it's just a release candidate.

in struts, the input tag of the action attribute is where the page will revert if the form bean is null.

Dreamweaver UltraDev supports jsp 1.0, and really only supports model 1 JSP dev. There is a project in Jakarta, Taglibs, that makes tools for custom tags in dreamweaver ultra dev 4. It is sorta flaky and requires that you run tomcat.