For some unknown reason this title reminds me of Marlon Brando
in "Apocalypse Now!" ...
8^)
Let me try and clarify, JSP HAS AT LEAST TWO DISTINCT DESIGN CENTRES:
1) a Scriptlet-centric design, where content and computation are
intermixed,
computuation is achieved using Beans and Scriptlets.
2) a Tag-centric design, where content and computation are separated,
where
computuation is abstracted into custom tags, this is a declarative
model.
(this also is very convenient when moving to an XML-centric view of
content)
We tried *very* hard to complete a design for the custom/extension tag
mechanism for JSP 1.0, but our first attempt was too complex, and only
understandable by old UNIX C Compiler hackers like ourselves, our
forthcoming
design in JSP1.1 (which we are already well underway with) will allow
people
to develop their own sets ot tags and have those be portable between
JSP
engines and tools.
In light of the addition of this facility in 1.1, and given some grave
concerns regarding the 0.92 tag semantics, we reluctantly removed those
features from 1.0.
As some of you have pointed out, JSP 1.0 does provide a mechanism for
implementations to declare their own custom tags (alhtough these are
not portable in 1.0, vendors are aware of 1.1 and have been encouraged
to design their extensions with portability in mind).
We can hope that some of the JSP vendors are wtaching this list and
will take note of your concerns and provide these tags as custom
extensions. Reinstating them into the 1.0 spec is not the right long
term solution ...
Hope this helps
- Larry Cable
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