----- Original Message ----- From: "David Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: Re: Editable Fields V/S Static Text > > However, at this time, we have a Struts-el taglib in circulation. We > > even have a Struts-faces taglib in the wings. We've definately reached > > the point where the JSTL has to sink or swim on its own. If the > > Community wants to use the tags, then we are bound to facilitate that > > any way we can. Standards are essential, but community-building is the > > Apache prime directive, and a large segment of our community is still > > locked out of the JCP JSTL standard. > > It would be neat to build tags that extend JSTL functionality to fill in > gaps left by the standard. Let the JSTL do the heavy lifting and add on > as necessary.
I think this is the mandate of the taglibs-unstandard tag library, which is still in the sandbox. I like the tags I see there a lot, particularly <un:instanceOf> and <un:invoke>, although I think the tags could definitely use some work. The documentation is awful and last time I looked <un:invoke> couldn't invoke methods with parameters (it could only invoke methods without parameters). I would love to see some of the power of Velocity put into JSP taglibs, like the ability to use the EL-like syntax to invoke methods. Of course if I really want that I should probably just use Velocity, huh? ;) Of course at a certain point you have basically eliminated the advantage of removing scriptlet code because your JSP tags are so sophisticated, but in my opinion the JSTL is a lot easier to use than scriptlets because it's easier to get at things in the pageContext, request, etc. and on the presentation tier you often don't care about data types. > David Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]