Awesome! Sounds good Fabrizio! If you want to send me a snapshot (when it's ready), I'll take a look at it and subsequently add you to the dev group - if we dig it, which I'm sure we will.
Thanks, Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Fabrizio Giustina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:59 AM > To: Matt Raible; John York > Subject: display taglibrary > > > > Hi Matt, hi John > I'm following this project since a while and I'd like to join > the developer's group. I started to look at the taglibrary > for a project I'm working on for my > company: since the original tag library didn't completely > work for me (the app lives in a portlet inside ibm websphere > portal and some of the request/response stuff work > differently there), I decided to start modifying the source. > I quickly realize the library needed a complete clean-up and > refactoring (some parts of the code are terrible... just the > main table tag was TOO big), trying to mantain compatibility > with the original version to submit my changes to te project. > The library is nearly finished, compatible with 8.5 version > but totally refactored... I'm working on updating the sample > website and documentation too. > > This version uses an iterator-like approach, mantaining > compatibility with the previous versione and with a speed > optimized approach: the main tag iterates on rows but content > is evaluated only if included in the body. (the approach is > similar to john one's, but compatible with the previous > version) The html produced is a lot cleaner. You can totally > customize navigation and exporting through properties. > Sorting is preserved if used with paging. Code is a lot more > OO and cleaned, easy to expand for new functionalities. You > can use expression for bean lookup: actually not LE as in > jstl for two main reason: compatibility with 8.5 version and > with j2ee 1.2 (I need this project working in Websphere 4!). > But the evaluation functionality is build in the main > template class and it will be really easy to create a LE > version of the library (maybe two releases, like the current > jstl library). Iteration can now be performed on different > kind of objects. ... and lots of other small things > > Actually I'm working on fixing the last functionalities I'm > trying to keep from 8.5 version, finishing cleaning up of the > code and fixing the sample site. I'd really like if this > could become the main new branch for the project, I never > submitted pach before because I though a complete > refactorying was really needed. > > I can send you a snapshot of the actual status, if you want > to take a look at that... I think I should be able to finish > fixing everything by next week. Let me know if I can join the > developer group > > bye > fabrizio giustina > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
