We've been using JSTL for about 6 months now. It works great. Our developers like it much better -- especially with the addition of the Expression Language. Our application hasn't gone into production yet, but it will later this year. We're a medium size team (around 15 developers). Our application is critical to our business and in the end will have several hundred screens.
We always try to use the JSTL tags when an equivalent Struts tag exists. We've looked at using the "Struts-EL" tag library. Unfortunately, that subproject has never been released with corresponding versions for Struts 1.1 B1, B2, B3, RC1, or RC2. So every time I try to use Struts-EL, there is always a tag that blows up. So we haven't had much success with Struts-EL, but the concept behind the library is good. Maybe it's better now, I haven't tried it in a while. Definitely plan on using JSTL. It's a step in the right direction with many benefits. I don't think you have much to worry about there. JOHN -----Original Message----- From: John Stritzinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JSTL or Struts taglib: on a large project I'm working on a large project team that's been using the Struts taglibs, not -el taglibs, with extensive use of logic:iterate, bean:write, bean:message, and html:form with html:text and other field tags. The usual suspects, in our JSPs. We are just about to begin work on a large development effort for a production system, about 1000+ JSP pages, and are debating whether to switch to JSTL standard taglib (1.0.3 current version). The Struts site has several references and recommendations for future work (e.g., Intro to logic taglib; struts-faces proposal; Struts 2.0; etc), and the JSP 2.0 spec, final draft 3, incorporates expression language (el). So it sure looks like the vote is for JSTL, at least for tags such as c:forEach, c:out, and use of el. But our team is a little nervous about switching from something that's working to something that we've used (JSTL) but not extensively to the point of proven-in-production. I've looked through the source code for some tags, like logic:iterate (IterateTag) compared to c:forEach (ForEachTag, ForEachSupport), and the JSTL code looks like it will handle our needs just fine. Reading the JSTL bug list (short list), the type of issues discussed on this and other mailing lists, it also seems like JSTL has been stable for a while and is in wide use. So what's the question? Well....looking for some real-world feedback about using the JSTL tags, and switching from the Struts tags to JSTL tags. Has anyone been using the JSTL standard taglib on a large site that's in production/live? Or gone through some conversion/refactoring efforts from Struts to JSTL taglibs? Appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance, Stritz __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
