I would suggest that this type of functionality be placed in a JavaBean rather than a tag.
I idea is that it is really not up to the page to decide in what format a date is displayed. That's really a business requirement that you would want to enforce on the Web presentation tier, or a PDF presentation tier, or in some type of Word Processing report. The page needs to decide whether the date property is displayed between <TD> elements or <LI> elements, and so forth. But there's no reason for the page to worry about formatting the date. Only how to markup the date property for a HTML page. The tags provide the basic funcationality you need to expose JavaBean properties to the page but are not intended to be used as part of a Model 1 design where business logic and presentation markup are handled as a single task. So, I would take whatever code you might otherwise put in Javascript or a custom tag and make it part of the getDate() (or getDateDisplay()) method on the JavaBean. Ideally, all the actual formatting should take place in a business tier bean, and then the formatted string passed to the ActionForm, ready to go. -T. edgar wrote: > I have found that the basic functionality of the tag library classes to > be limited (I assume by design) , and I have found myself writing > replacement tags for quite a number of things. I.E. In order to have a > relatively simple date interface (avoid very complex javascript in every > jsp) the logical place to put such code is in the tag libraries. > > Question 1: Am I missing something and is this code is actually being > produced somewhere else? > > Question 2: Is there a desire for such code to be included in Struts or > does this bring the user interface too much into the picture? > > Question 3: How complex will life be when moving from version to version > of Struts if I continue to 'roll my own'? > > Thanks > > Edgar Dollin > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US co-author, Java Web Development with Struts Order it today: <http://husted.com/struts/book.html> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
