Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-13 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Dror Matalon wrote: > We're in the middle of moving our platform to using the JSP 1.2 with > custom tags. Writing tags is actually not that bad. The only "hard" > thing was figuring out the whole issue of passing arguments, and that > was hard only because I couldn't find a g

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Hans Bergsten
Dror Matalon wrote: > Ok. This looks much better. I'll have to play with it a bit, and explore > things more, but it certainly makes using tags much more flexible. For > instance, we're implementing SQL reports and applying stylesheets using > a syntax that looks like this: > > > > Looks like it

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Dror Matalon
Ok. This looks much better. I'll have to play with it a bit, and explore things more, but it certainly makes using tags much more flexible. For instance, we're implementing SQL reports and applying stylesheets using a syntax that looks like this: Looks like it would make more sense to transform

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Dror Matalon wrote: > How would development with the expression language compare to using a > template engine like Velocity in your opinion? It seems that there's a > lot of overlapping functionality. One very specific (but I think very important) difference between the prop

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Hans Bergsten
Hans Bergsten wrote: > Dror Matalon wrote: > >> Hans, >> >> >> Thanks for the detailed response. One more question that's somewhat >> related. One of the most basic and powerful features in a language is >> the ability to chain things, but I haven't seen any indications that you >> can do this wi

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Hans Bergsten
Dror Matalon wrote: > Hans, > > > Thanks for the detailed response. One more question that's somewhat > related. One of the most basic and powerful features in a language is > the ability to chain things, but I haven't seen any indications that you > can do this with tags, without going into Java

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Dror Matalon
Hans, Thanks for the detailed response. One more question that's somewhat related. One of the most basic and powerful features in a language is the ability to chain things, but I haven't seen any indications that you can do this with tags, without going into Java. For instance let's say that yo

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-12 Thread Hans Bergsten
Dror, > Good article. I also went back and read the first part where you were > talking about the JSTL expression language. > > How would development with the expression language compare to using a > template engine like Velocity in your opinion? It seems that there's a > lot of overlapping funct

Re: [ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-11 Thread Dror Matalon
Hans, Good article. I also went back and read the first part where you were talking about the JSTL expression language. How would development with the expression language compare to using a template engine like Velocity in your opinion? It seems that there's a lot of overlapping functionality.

[ANN] Part 2 of JSTL article at ONJava.com

2002-09-11 Thread Hans Bergsten
Guys, I just wanted to let you know that part 2 of my JSTL article series is now available at ONJava.com: This part focuses on internationalization, database access, and interaction between servlets/filters and JSTL actions. I hope