On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Sundar Narasimhan wrote:
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:02:32 -0500 > From: Sundar Narasimhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Rendering alternate rows of a table in Struts > > Hi, Craig: > > >JSTL in particular covers a huge amount of ground on the nitty gritty > >things, and (where it overlaps with things in the struts-bean and > >struts-logic libraries) does it much better, mostly thanks to the > >expression language's power. > > I couldn't agree w/ this statement more after spending a bunch of time > struggling with struts's syntax etc. > > I would like to ask a question about JSTL though.. admittedly I've > only glanced at the manual and not used it for anything real. Does the > JSTL envision to expand to include/replace struts/forms/action > functionality on the server side? I didn't see any references to such > .. but may be I missed it. > The "charter" of each JSR is set only when that JSR is submitted, and there isn't one yet for JSTL 1.1 -- but I'm assuming that the set of stuff that gets standardized by JSTL will gradually expand in future versions, mostly as a reaction to seeing what additional "horizontally useful things that everybody has to invent" there are to standardize on. A way to get involved in this would be to subscribe to the Jakarta Taglibs project and start experimenting on some tags that might be interesting to create. With regards to "user interface component" type tags in particular, you'll see those addressed in JavaServer Faces (JSR-127) rather than JSTL. JavaServer Faces will be providing both an API-level component model (which works with any presentation technology) and a mapping of JSP tags to those components on top of the basic APIs. With regards to the Struts tag libraries, I've made fairly long descriptions of my view for the future before (check the mailing list archives for thoughts on integration with JavaServer Faces in particular). But the short answer is that, by the time we get to a a Struts 2.0 that can be dependent on JSTL and JavaServer Faces, there will be little (if any) need for Struts-specific presentation tags. Personally, I want to focus on improving the core controller part of Struts, and let page authors use whatever technology they like for the user interface. In the interim, I'm sure that people will continue to maintain the existing tag libraries. But that's not going to be my own focus. > Thanks. > > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
