> -----Original Message----- > From: Glenn Nielsen [mailto:glenn@;mail.more.net] > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:02 PM > > I would recommend creating the EL enabled version as a 2.0 release. > Enabling EL in an older non EL taglib can allow you to restructure > how your tags work. Some tags or tag attributes may no longer be > necessary when the EL is available. Plus doesn't the EL > require JSP 1.2? > And the current taglib is compatible with JSP 1.1? > > Adding the EL is enough of a change to warrant a 2.0 release IMHO. > Perhaps not from the developer viewpoint, but definitely from the > user viewpoint.
Why exactly would enabling EL allow you to restructure how your tags work? When you say that some tags or attributes may no longer be necessary, do you mean because some JSTL tag might perform that functionality? In the case of the Struts-EL library, I simply chose not to port certain tags from Struts to Struts-EL if their functionality was entirely provided by a JSTL tag. It didn't allow me "restructure how tags work". Yes, using the EL requires JSP 1.2. That's why it's good at this point to keep the "-rt" and "-el" versions of libraries somewhat separated. I consider the "functionality" of a tag library, and the mechanism it uses to evaluate tag attributes, to be independent. Adding an EL-ized version of a library doesn't imply any change to the base library. Users using the "-rt" library would never notice a difference. However, the people who want to quickly move forward on using and experimenting with the JSTL would have another tool they could more easily integrate with, without having to wait for a 2.0 release. Note that I haven't used the String tag library, nor am I familiar with its contents (although I believe you have some substring matching tags, which is good). I'm just looking to promote usage of the JSTL, which will be more likely if popular tag libraries that do things the JSTL doesn't do can use the same attribute syntax. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
