An invention is provided for incorporating web services into JSP tag libraries for use in JSP pages. As a result, web page authors can develop JSP pages, which utilize web services from WSDL enabled servers, without an in-depth knowledge of WSDL. In general, a web services based document is received, which defines a set of web service operations. Each web service operation is translated into a custom action, and the custom actions are grouped into a tag library. Generally, the web services based document can be a WSDL document, and the custom actions can be JSP custom actions. Also, the tag library can be a JSP custom tag library. Particular custom actions from the custom actions that are grouped in the JSP custom tag library can be incorporated in a JSP page. Once the JSP page is created, content for the JSP page can be obtained from a web service using the JSP custom tag library. The JSP page can then generate a document based on the content. The document can be an HTML document, an XML document, or any other type document as needed for the particular situation.