On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, O'brien, Tim wrote:
> > I imagine EL will not be able to implement it until it is in > > the JSP 2.0 specification as, as far as I know, commons-el is > > the EL component of the JSP 2.0 spec. > > > > But I could be utterly wrong :) > > I understand that it is dependent on a JCP developed spec, was just > wondering if ASF could (or even wanted to) provide functionality outside of > the specification - EL is a part of the JSTL spec - JSR-052 and a port of > the JSR-152. > > Seems like the commons at ASF is full of packages that frequently extend the > functionality of the existing frameworks - beanutils and collections. I'm > just curious as to the direction of commons-el. If JSR-152 Section JSP.2.4 > tells developers not to use "instanceof", it seems like it would be harmless > to implement this as a BinaryOperator Worth asking, possibly to the Tomcat-dev list. The difference between collections/beanutils and commons-el is that commons-el is the Reference Implementation, and I think the view is that it should do no more and no less than the specification itself. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
