Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Greg Reddin ha scritto: Of the attributes that are currently supported by InsertTag, I believe the following are redundant: 1) attribute, definition, name could all be resolved to name. ... In addition the name attribute can be interpreted as either a pointer to a Tiles definition or

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Antonio Petrelli ha scritto: Maybe an optional type attribute could be used to distinguish between attribute and name Errata corrige: I meant to distinguish between attribute and definition - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Joe Germuska
Would you consider some kind of compatibility mode? That is, before you remove support for these, could there be a way for people to configure things for a more strict or more compatible evaluation, to ease migration? It seems like the closest you can get to deprecation warnings in tag

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Reddin
On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:09 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: Greg Reddin ha scritto: Of the attributes that are currently supported by InsertTag, I believe the following are redundant: 1) attribute, definition, name could all be resolved to name. ... In addition the name attribute can be

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Nathan Bubna
I like the idea. I've always felt tiles was more complicated than necessary. Simplify it. Antonio's question is a good one. The lookup order needs to be well documented and a type=definition|attribute attribute would probably need to be available to override the standard lookup procedure. On

RE: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Greg Reddin asked: I'm not really sure what the use of the beanName and beanProperty values are, so if someone wants to enlighten me on that, I'd appreciate it. I would guess that's just to get the tile name from a bean property. With the availability of EL, that seems like an unnecessary

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Reddin
On Jun 14, 2006, at 9:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Reddin asked: I'm not really sure what the use of the beanName and beanProperty values are, so if someone wants to enlighten me on that, I'd appreciate it. I would guess that's just to get the tile name from a bean property. With

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 6/14/06, Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you consider some kind of compatibility mode? That is, before you remove support for these, could there be a way for people to configure things for a more strict or more compatible evaluation, to ease migration? It seems like the closest

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Reddin
On Jun 14, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Wendy Smoak wrote: On 6/14/06, Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you consider some kind of compatibility mode? That is, before you remove support for these, could there be a way for people to configure things for a more strict or more compatible

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Joe Germuska
At 9:00 AM -0700 6/14/06, Wendy Smoak wrote: On 6/14/06, Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you consider some kind of compatibility mode? That is, before you remove support for these, could there be a way for people to configure things for a more strict or more compatible evaluation,

Re: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Reddin
On Jun 14, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Joe Germuska wrote: At 9:00 AM -0700 6/14/06, Wendy Smoak wrote: On 6/14/06, Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you consider some kind of compatibility mode? That is, before you remove support for these, could there be a way for people to configure

[Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-13 Thread Greg Reddin
Ticket SB-21 [1] seeks to simplify the Tiles taglib API. First, it's a given that this will break backwards compatibility. You can't reduce an API without breaking compatibility. But as long as we're seeing this version of Tiles as a rework, I don't think it's a problem. Also, I don't