Re: standard taglib documentation
At 01:48 PM 11/2/2004 -0800, Martin Cooper wrote: Well, there's the spec itself, which is actually very readable. There's also the (freely available) Appendix A from Shawn Bayern's JSTL In Action, which is what I tend to use: http://www.manning.com/bayern The full link to Shawn's reference can be found at: http://www.manning-source.com/books/bayern/bayern_apxA.pdf It's also worth mentioning that when you download standard taglibs you get a standard-taglibs.war file which can be deployed in Tomcat and contains not only a reference but also example code. I wish that all of the jakarta taglibs examples could be be bundled into a single context so that all of the taglib examples could be deployed one time instead of having multiple contexts. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: standard taglib documentation
I highly recommend Shawn Bayern's JSTL in Action. It's well-written, immensely useful. I keep it within arm's reach whenever I write JSPs. I have given several copies of this book and myself keep one copy at work, one copy at home, and the eBook PDF handy on the laptop. I agree with the points made in this thread that the STL standard is itself useful documentation, that there are other great free resources available in support of JSTL usage, and that the documentation distributed with the STL could be improved. Nonetheless, sometimes it makes sense to buy a resource that will make a difference. If you're going to be using JSTL more than a little bit, it's a great book to have skimmed once, keep around for reference, and be able to hand to others who need to understand your JSTL usages. Andrew Full disclosure: I know Shawn outside the context of JSTL. Well, there's the spec itself, which is actually very readable. There's also the (freely available) Appendix A from Shawn Bayern's JSTL In Action, which is what I tend to use: http://www.manning.com/bayern The full link to Shawn's reference can be found at: http://www.manning-source.com/books/bayern/bayern_apxA.pdf Yes. Thanks to both of you for pointing that link out. I've already downloaded and looked at the pdf (it fixed the problem I was having). It's also worth mentioning that when you download standard taglibs you get a standard-taglibs.war file which can be deployed in Tomcat and contains not only a reference but also example code. Hmm...Do you mean standard-taglibs.jar? I've extracted and have run standard-doc.war which has two html pages that basically point elsewhere... I wish that all of the jakarta taglibs examples could be be bundled into a single context so that all of the taglib examples could be deployed one time instead of having multiple contexts. Well, I still would like to see taglib documentation distributed with the standard-taglibs. I really appreciate the help I've gotten from the list, but I am disappointed that the result has been links to external references and the specification. Even before I joined the list, I spent some time googling, searching on java.sun.com for information on what the available tags in jstl were, etc...Maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong direction, I've been working with Java for a number of years and to me it just seems natural that if you have an API you would have a set of HTML files (Javadoc) describing that API. In this case, I was expecting/looking for something similar to http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/application-doc/index.html I just found it frustrating that the resources that I am used to aren't available. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: standard taglib documentation
On November 2, 2004 04:18 pm, Bill Siggelkow wrote: http://www.jadecove.com/jstl-quick-reference.pdf Cool. Thanks. Chris Gow wrote: Hi: I've just recently started using/learning JSTL and I'm trying to locate some sort of documentation describing what the various tags are and their attributes etc (sort of like a Javadoc for taglibs). I noticed that some of the taglibs in the sandbox have a link to their own taglib documentation but I can't seem to find any for the standard ones (eg. the out tag does XXX and has the following attributes YYY, ZZZ) that sort of thing. The binary distribution just appears to include only Javadoc. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Not to be anal or anything, but shouldn't this sort of documentation be part of the binary distribution? Not a quick reference guide in pdf format, but some sort of HTML documentation like javadoc? In any case, thanks for the link. It'll come in handy as learn how to use it. -- chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: standard taglib documentation
Well, there's the spec itself, which is actually very readable. There's also the (freely available) Appendix A from Shawn Bayern's JSTL In Action, which is what I tend to use: http://www.manning.com/bayern -- Martin Cooper On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:30:48 -0500, Chris Gow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On November 2, 2004 04:18 pm, Bill Siggelkow wrote: http://www.jadecove.com/jstl-quick-reference.pdf Cool. Thanks. Chris Gow wrote: Hi: I've just recently started using/learning JSTL and I'm trying to locate some sort of documentation describing what the various tags are and their attributes etc (sort of like a Javadoc for taglibs). I noticed that some of the taglibs in the sandbox have a link to their own taglib documentation but I can't seem to find any for the standard ones (eg. the out tag does XXX and has the following attributes YYY, ZZZ) that sort of thing. The binary distribution just appears to include only Javadoc. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. Not to be anal or anything, but shouldn't this sort of documentation be part of the binary distribution? Not a quick reference guide in pdf format, but some sort of HTML documentation like javadoc? In any case, thanks for the link. It'll come in handy as learn how to use it. -- chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
