Maybe you could post this to the ECS users group. Scriptlets are fine, but
tend to lend themselves to having lots of lines of code in a page that
doesn't actually generate html, which is tough to read if you are trying to
lay things out.
>
> Why do you think Ant is so popular??? It got rid of all the
> $var UNIX script
> like crap and made it more like tags should be!!!!!!!!!!!
>
What are you talking about? ${var} is pretty standard in Ant.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bailey, Shane C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: August 8, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: JSTL ot struts taglibs?
>
>
>
> Scriptlets are more powerful (you can do ANYTHING Java can
> do), faster, is a
> standard (it is the Java language you know) and if you are
> going to spend
> time learning a new language (${var} == "pooPoo") then you
> would be better
> off learning Java (assuming you don't already know it) cause
> then you could
> do scriptlets and middle tier coding and more whereas if you
> use your time
> learning JSTL all you will know is JSTL.
>
> Believe me, JSTL will be easy to replace if someone comes out with an
> alternative. I am a programmer but I understand the
> importance of having
> the tags be similar to HTML tags and not like tags containing
> scriptlets.
>
> If it makes you happy $var is a legal Java variable name so
> you could just
> write scriptlets with $var and no one would realize you
> weren't writing JSTL
>
>
> :)
>
> Why do you think Ant is so popular??? It got rid of all the
> $var UNIX script
> like crap and made it more like tags should be!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Bottom line is, yes, Struts tags aren't the best but JSTL is
> not much better
> and will probably be replaced with something not so ugly in
> the future.
>
>
> Just my .02 sense.
>
> I like it how some people don't get disturbed by questions
> about connecting
> to a database with JDBC to the Struts user list but get mad
> if you post a
> differing opinion about the crappy way some tags were written that
> interfaces with Struts code. What an ACE!
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:28 AM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: JSTL ot struts taglibs?
>
> --- David Thielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > For the logic and I18N taglibs - what do you recommend - using the
> > struts taglibs or the JSTL taglibs?
>
> Definitely JSTL. They're more powerful, easier to use, potentially
> faster, and a Java standard.
>
> David
>
> >
> > thanks - dave
>
>
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