I'm a big +1 on this. Using Jelly as the underlying mechanism takes a lot of the complexity out of Latka. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers
Morgan Delagrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/10/2002 03:12:12 AM: > Ah I should note this. The only incompatibility I see > with the new Jelly tags is wrt. existing custom > validators. Any XML handlers written for the old tags > would have to be reimplemented as Jelly tags. It's > not a difficult task (it takes less than a few minutes > in most cases), but it does break compatibility. > Existing Validator classes should work unchanged. > > --- Morgan Delagrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I finished a rough cut conversion of the Latka tags > > and validators to Jelly. The Jelly tags have syntax > > identical to the previous Latka tags. I think it > > will > > be pretty easy to emulate Latka variables inside the > > Jelly expression language (JEXL). With a patch I > > made > > to Jelly this week, I think even the lack of a > > namespace declaration in existing scripts will not > > be > > a problem. > > > > I believe that the functionality of the Jelly tags > > is > > actually a complete superset of the previous > > implementation. The command line interface should > > be > > able to function unchanged if converted to a Jelly > > backend, but the new tags will make it much easier > > to > > run Latka inside applications like Ant and JUnit. I > > propose that we make Jelly one of Latka's > > dependencies, so that we can remove the XML handlers > > and processors that support the previous tags. In > > my > > view, the Jelly implementation is much cleaner and > > will render the old tags unnecessary. > > > > - Morgan > > > > ===== > > Morgan Delagrange > > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons > > http://axion.tigris.org > > http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > ===== > Morgan Delagrange > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons > http://axion.tigris.org > http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
