--- Sgarlata Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- 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 was referring more to something like changing <html:link> into an extension of <c:url> that supports references to Struts actions. In general, adding Struts support to the standard tags. > 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. I couldn't agree more. David > > Matt > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
