jsp needs updating

[Je...@aol.com]

Hi, I am at the process of learning JSP, and there are some things I see 
problematic. If there is a solution for my problem please let me know. First 
I don't like the fact that there aren't enough standard tag libraries for 
pervasive operations like database, cookies, html parsing, etc....There are  
downloadable libraries however, for example the book I am using uses it's own 
tag libraries and beans which the user has to download. The problem I see 
with this is that, it is not a standard, which means that if I want to 
migrate the code it wouldn't work unless  I also transfer over the proper 
classes and tag libraries. Why don't they have a standard out there for JSP 
rather than using third party classes and tag handlers.

Is there a standard java JSP specification tag libraries out there or do we 
as programmers have to make all the custom tags/ tag handlers for the common 
programming tags like database,cookies,parsing. etc...

In my opinion JSP is a very hard technology to learn and is very misleading  
because most think of (including myself)  JSP as Java's version of "PHP" or 
"ASP". But in my opinion JSP technology is harder to learn than Java 
servlets. The reason why I think this is because with all the things you have 
to learn like creating your own tags which uses XML,creating scriplets( which 
in my opinion is the easiest part to JSP), creating your own JavaBean, and to 
top it all off , not having a standard JSP tag library makes it very 
diffucult as a programmer. It's a combination of XML,ASP/PHP,JavaBeans and 
Java Servlet. 

Does anyone share the same view as me or is JSP just about the scriplets and 
not about any of the other parts I mentioned.