I believe my thoughts are similar. When I code, I explicitly try to be "OGNL free" in my JSP. There's no reason for me to use OGNL unless I am forced to via interaction with Struts. I do what I can do make sure my JSP usage sticks with the EE standard.
Cheers, Paul On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Aaron Johnson <johnson.aar...@gmail.com> wrote: > EL now supports many functions of OGNL. Would it make sense just to replace > OGNL with EL? There doesn't seem to be much of a community around updating > OGNL. The newer versions of EL have improved support for usage outside of > the JSP environment. Is it possible to use EL in the other templates > (Velocity, Freemarker, etc)? It is very confusing to have to work with > multiple expression contexts (ValueStack lookups and JSTL) when authoring > JSPs. > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Maybe we should have two versions of the tags? One that accepts EL (and > > never executes OGNL) and another one that does. Quite honestly, I have no > > use for OGNL inside of JSP. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > That's disappointing that we're crippling the use of these tags. I just > > > want to use EL for single evaluation. I don't need both OGNL and EL in > my > > > tags -- just EL. > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Dave Newton <davelnew...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> > > > http://struts.apache.org/release/2.2.x/docs/why-cant-i-use-jstl-style-el-expressions-in-struts-tags.html > > >> > > >> > > >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org > > > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Is this a bug? I cannot use an EL expression to set the "value" > > >> attribute. > > >> > I don't understand why such a restriction exists. Thoughts? > > >> > > > >> > Cheers, > > >> > Paul > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> e: davelnew...@gmail.com > > >> m: 908-380-8699 > > >> s: davelnewton_skype > > >> t: @dave_newton <https://twitter.com/dave_newton> > > >> b: Bucky Bits <http://buckybits.blogspot.com/> > > >> g: davelnewton <https://github.com/davelnewton> > > >> so: Dave Newton <http://stackoverflow.com/users/438992/dave-newton> > > >> > > > > > > > > >
