Re: Problem with "empty" key word on a collection.

2003-02-14 Thread James Cook
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Pierre Delisle wrote: The change that Jeff is proposing, although of interest, would unfortunately break compatibility with the spec. (sorry guys, but the Expert Group ain't perfect) Why would extending the empty keyword to support Collections brea

Custom property in a Collection subclass

2002-11-11 Thread James Cook
I have a subclass of ArrayList that exposes its own property, userObject. class NamedList extends ArrayList { Object _userObject; public NamedList(Object userObject) { _userObject = userObject; } public Object getUserObject() { retu

RE: Beefing up JSTL EL in JSP 2

2002-10-15 Thread James Cook
I wonder why the unnecessary complication here? If they are going to use reflection anyway, why subject the users to creating these extra xml fragments. A nickname hardly seems worth it, and adding another point where a slight syntax problem in an XML document can cause additional time deploying a

Beefing up JSTL EL in JSP 2

2002-10-13 Thread James Cook
Lot of acronyms. What is the tie-in between JSP 2.0 and the Expression Language? It seems to have been introduced in a "low-power" version in the JSTL 1.0 spec, but I am reading that it will support function-type calls when JSP 2.0 is released? Is JSP 2.0 going to include a newer version of JSTL