I started a new job recently for which I need to learn both beans and
taglibs (at my last job also did JSP but they didn't use beans or taglibs..)

reading up on this in oreilly (JSP, 3rd ed.) I find following beans code:

<jsp:useBean....>  etc.. but where I work they do stuff like:

    <bean:define id="showName">

i.e., "bean" here looks like a namespace for taglibs..  can anyone shed
some light pls..   am confused as it is by beans/taglibs (by which I
mean custom tags.. they only use custom tags here..)

thank you very much...

-m