On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Cedric Dumoulin wrote: > > There is already a very similar "extended template" taglib, called Tiles, > in the contrib part of Struts project. > Doesn't two very similar taglib in different jakarta project will confuse > users ?
Well look at two other taglibs that come with Struts: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/struts-bean.html http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/struts-logic.html They ought to be in jakarta-taglibs too ;) > Maybe the Tiles taglib is not at its right place now and should be > move in taglib. I think so. We're using Tiles, and the struts jars are just collecting dust. > Tiles are actually in Struts contrib for historical reasons, but > they can be used independantly from Struts, and for sure with taglibs. > Tiles already provide the same tag behaviors as the ones describe in > David's chapter, but with different names. > > And, as already said in an old mail, I think that it would benefit to > users to share ideas about templating/web-components and discuss rather than > working alone ... Too late ;) The fact is, two good quality, mature templating systems exist. I'm in the "more the merrier" camp. If both Tiles and Templates2 were in jakarta-taglibs, and their differences clearly documented, I can't imagine users complaining. --Jeff > Cedric