On 13 Sep 2002, Craig Longman wrote: > i'm confused about something, and no amount of searching has been able > to help me, and the javadocs are a bit vague. > > the set/get/removeValue() methods in the TagSupport class. what are > they setting, getting and removing? not the actual properties (as > handled by the getXXX()/setXXX() methods), right? this is just some > map of key/values for something else? if so, then what were the > intentions for this, somewhere to store stuff between invocations? > the methods are marked public, so it seems like they have an external > purpose, but i'm just not seeing it.
You're not missing anything; the methods have no real purpose. :) Their presence is largely idiosyncratic; they can be used to store "tag- instance-scoped variables" should you ever need them, but this is effectively equivalent to keeping an instance variable of type Map yourself. The methods are just a convenience provided by TagSupport; they have nothing to do with the more generic "Tag" interface itself. -- Shawn Bayern "JSTL in Action" http://www.jstlbook.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
