On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Karr, David wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@;generationjava.com] > > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:21 AM > > > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Karr, David wrote: > > > > > If there's interest in "EL-izing" certain non-ELed tag libraries, > > > without changing the library (so the original library can > > still work in > > > Servlet 2.2 environments), and you don't want to wait for > > JSP 2.0, you > > > might consider using the strategy I used in building the > > Struts-EL tag > > > library. > > > > I was thinking of a strategy that basically did a: Is this class > > [ExpressionEvaluator or whatever it is] in the classpath. If so, then > > cache this result statically [in my StringTagSupport] and > > make sure that > > ELizing happens. > > > > Any reason this would fail? > > > > String taglib has a pretty simple design, there's only one > > actual taglib > > class, all the rest just do String transformations and not > > tag stuff, so > > it can be nice and easy to upgrade :) > > You're intending to store the class name as a string somewhere, > determine whether you can load it, and then call the methods of the > class through Reflection? I suppose that would work. You'll have to > rip out that code when you move to JSP 2.0. If you used a subclass, you > would just remove the subclass. Kinda. Will play with it a while, see if it'll work. Hen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
