Are you telling me that ${customer.name} it's enough for Struts-el to look
for a customer bean stored in any scope and process a getName() method? If
so, that's great.Would it be a good approach to have taglibs, jstl and struts from their respective bundles? I downloaded taglibs (complete version, nightly build) and I suppose there is something similar for JSTL. This way we are guaranteed to run always the last versions. For stuff, mainly in my project I'll need to present bean information and to cycle through collections, more or less what an enterprise application is made of, isn't it? One risks to get bored :)) Good night, Marco ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:23 PM Subject: Re: JSTL and Struts-el > On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Marco Tedone wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:36:01 +0100 > > From: Marco Tedone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: JSTL and Struts-el > > > > That's sounds great Craig, thanks. I can guess that you will define what > > customer is and where to get it somewhere, presumibly a configuration file. > > In a Struts app, it tends to get stored as a request or session attribute > by the execution of an Action (and note that you don't care which scope it > is in an EL expression :-). Other ways to get it there include things > like <jsp:useBean>, or Java code that calls request.setAttribute() or > session.setAttribute(). > > > Now, to know all this stuff, where shall I look at? Is there any > > documentation available, does it come with the Struts distribution? (I just > > realized that I was still in 1.1-rc1 :)) > > > > Well, that depends on which "stuff" you want to know :-). > > For JSTL, I'd start by reading the JSTL Specification: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/ > > This page also contains pointers to numerous articles and books that > include coverage of JSTL. Of the three books, I've only read Shawn's (and > it's quite good), but I have no doubt based on previous experience that > Hans and David did an excellent job as well. > > The JSTL jar files (jstl.jar and standard.jar) are included with Struts-EL > (in "contrib/struts-el/lib") but I would suggest going and getting the > 1.0.3 standalone release as well -- pick "Taglibs" then "Standard" at: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi > > This implementation comes with lots of examples of using each of the tags. > > The struts-el library itself is included with the Struts 1.1 final > release, in the "contrib/struts-el" subdirectory, along with a small > webapp containing examples of each tag in use. > > You might also want to keep your eyes open for articles about JSP 2.0 (and > download Tomcat 5 if you're interested in playing with it). Allowing EL > expressions to be used everywhere in a JSP 2.0 page is one of the big > usability improvements in this version -- but there are lots more too. > > > Marco > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
