Re: JSTL in Action: first few chapters

2002-08-03 Thread David M. Karr
> "Dave" == Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Peter Lin wrote: >> reading the spec isn't always as simple as one would >> like. For example, the use of hashmap was totally >> clear to me, until I read the section in shawn's book. >> Dave> Er... :D

Re: JSTL in Action: first few chapters

2002-08-03 Thread Dave Newton
Peter Lin wrote: >reading the spec isn't always as simple as one would >like. For example, the use of hashmap was totally >clear to me, until I read the section in shawn's book. > > Er... :D Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail

Re: JSTL in Action: first few chapters

2002-08-03 Thread Peter Lin
Someone at work bought an electronic version and ordered a few copies. If you are serious about using JSTL, I would recommend it. reading the spec isn't always as simple as one would like. For example, the use of hashmap was totally clear to me, until I read the section in shawn's book. I must

Re: String taglib release

2002-08-03 Thread Tim Kettering
Hi, Sorry for the belated reply on this. A project I'm working on needed two types of functionality, which I'm doing right now with some custom code, but I had thought about suggesting a sandbox project for those two to contribute back to the taglibs community. However, I noticed that String t

Re: Hashtable/Map access

2002-08-03 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, petra staub wrote: > great, and just another question to this: > > how to do, if the key is a variable, say > > color="blue" and now i want to do the > same again? how can i make the expression > first disolve the variable color to "blue" > > color = "blue" > ${MyMap.color}

Re: Building JSTL with JDK 1.4 (minus jaxp-api.jar)?

2002-08-03 Thread Shawn Bayern
On 3 Aug 2002, David M. Karr wrote: > I was experimenting with building the JSTL from source, but I noticed > it doesn't deal properly with building with JDK 1.4, as it requires > the presence of "jaxp-api.jar", which I believe is part of JDK 1.4. That's just an artifact of the build process; th

Building JSTL with JDK 1.4 (minus jaxp-api.jar)?

2002-08-03 Thread David M. Karr
I was experimenting with building the JSTL from source, but I noticed it doesn't deal properly with building with JDK 1.4, as it requires the presence of "jaxp-api.jar", which I believe is part of JDK 1.4. -- === David M. Karr

JNDI connection datasource

2002-08-03 Thread anand
Shawn, I have a connection string in the web.xml as follows: javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql.dataSource jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;SelectMethod=cursor;,com.microsoft .jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver,ltd_user and my JSTL SQL have no problems getting the connection and

Re: Hashtable/Map access

2002-08-03 Thread anand
Shawn, I have a connection string in the web.xml as follows: javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql.dataSource jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;SelectMethod=cursor;,com.microsoft .jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver,ltd_user and my JSTL SQL have no problems getting the connection and

Re: Hashtable/Map access

2002-08-03 Thread petra staub
great, and just another question to this: how to do, if the key is a variable, say color="blue" and now i want to do the same again? how can i make the expression first disolve the variable color to "blue" color = "blue" ${MyMap.color} --> sky thanks again! >From: Shawn Bayern <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Hashtable/Map access

2002-08-03 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, petra staub wrote: > Hi, > > I have a map/hashtable like: > { > blue => sky > green => frog > red => ball > yellow => sun > } > > I understand that using the tag I > can iterate through the collection and access > every element with key and value. > > But how can I

Hashtable/Map access

2002-08-03 Thread petra staub
Hi, I have a map/hashtable like: { blue => sky green => frog red => ball yellow => sun } I understand that using the tag I can iterate through the collection and access every element with key and value. But how can I directly access the value of an entry if I know the key? I tried s