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While looking for a good dynamic menu a while a go, I drew a blank. All I could find were nasty JavaScript menus that were overly complex to setup and maintain. As such I decided to write my own. Based on some work by Simon Brown, TagMenu is a simple to use menu custom tag library.

With TagMenu you can create infinitely deep menu structures that dynamically contract and expand when clicked. The menu is configured via a very simple XML file such as:

<menu name="Root" link="menu.jsp">
  <menu name="Menu 1" link="menu.jsp">
    <menu name="Menu 1-1" link="menu.jsp"/>
  </menu>
  <menu name="Menu 2" link="menu.jsp">
    <menu name="Menu 2-1" link="menu.jsp"/>
  </menu>
</menu>

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