Nah mate. EL, is FAR from being a "new version". Its just an extra taglib. (The taglibs are like 5% of what struts does (well ok, a bit more if you include tiles in the equation!)). I dont even use JSP myself, so I could be barking up the wrong tree, but AFAIK there is absolutely nothing to stop you using the EL tags and the ancient tags in the same page?
I believe EL works best in conjunction with JSTL tags, and I think that where the old tags duplicated JSTL is whats been left out. I hear that the newest version of JSP (supported by TC5) allows use of EL type expressions anywhere on the page or in tag parameters (thus making the EL tags obsolete). -----Original Message----- From: Derek Clarkson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 December 2003 12:14 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: what is the defferent betwwen normal struts tag and EL tag ? Hi, Don't consider me an expert, but struts-EL is the new version of struts. It is designated as a seperate product at the moment because it requires a later version of the JSP in order to be used. You will find that most people are using it in preference to just struts. Practical differences are that a fair chunk of the struts tags have been removed in struts -EL, thus you cannot just flip libraries, you have to spend some time converting the JSP code as well. But having used both, I consider struts-EL to be easier and more flexible. Plus the new tags from the JSTL project give it a lot more power. Visually I also find it easy to follow in a JSP page because the tags are more compact. Just my personal opinion ;-) Derek. On Friday 19 December 2003 13:21, Eric Chow wrote: > Hello, > > html or html-el, bean or bean-el, etc ????? > > What should be used and what is the defference ??? > > > Eric > > > > ========================== > If you know what you are doing, > it is not called RESEARCH! > ========================== > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Derek Clarkson .O. Analyst/Programmer ..O Waterwerks Pty Ltd OOO Melbourne, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
