On Wed, 2 May 2001, Brent Johnson wrote:
> The statement tag gets its connection as follows inside of doStartTag():
> Connection conn = (Connection)pageContext.getAttribute(_connId);
>
> This means that the connection must be defined at PAGE_SCOPE. This seems a bit
>restrictive. What if my connection isn't at page scope? Is there a reason why the
>statement tag doesn't use pageContext.findAttribute()?
The <sql:connection> tags doesn't support assigning to another scope, so
that's the only real logic there. I suppose it could use findAttribute,
but I don't really dig on people storing Connections at other
scopes. That's what database pools are for. :)
- Morgan
