With a layout, a "parameter" can consist of a large block of JSP. Like, the page body, or a large fraction of it, or a dialog body, or page navigation block. There can be any number of such parameters.
You can do that with a Java-coded tag but not a tag file, other than the single "body". That said, I like tags too :-) On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Will Hartung <redro...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Mike McNally wrote: > >> Tags are great for a variety of things. Stripes layouts are (to me) >> really like "super tags". One of the main qualitative improvements >> over tag files is that a layout component can be a whole bunch of JSP >> (including, once and I hope again soon, more invocations of layouts >> :-) >> >> To me the use of nested layouts is a simplification, not a >> complication. I use a surrounding layout for the overall page, and >> then when there are common page components that call for more than >> what a tag or (ick) a jsp include can do, I use more layouts. It makes >> it much easier to manage site-wide changes. > > I've never used Layout, I've always used Tag Files. I'm a Tag File zealot. > They're simply too simple and too powerful to make be bother to look anywhere > else. Tag files give JSP a refactorability and elegance I haven't found > really in any other markup solution. > > Regards, > > Will Hartung > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users -- Turtle, turtle, on the ground, Pink and shiny, turn around. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
