On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Eric W Hauser wrote:
> If you want to use constant fields, check out the archives for this > list...There have been some good posts in the last couple of weeks on how > to accomplish this...JSTL does not provide a mechanism for retrieving > constant values from classes...Of course, there is a tag for it in the > unstandard library...But something about an unstandard library as part of > a standard library just gives me a headache...So, I would stay away from > that and use solutions based on the J2EE spec... The reason why I make sure people are aware of the unstandard-library approach is that they may not have Actions or Servlets. The Java community has a very bad habit of assuming that every situation requires Java coding. This is pretty bad for a web-designer who doesn't understand Java but is quite happy with tags. Unstandard taglib exists primarily for people who do not have a Servlet or use one of the Model-2 MVC setups. Something I do plan to add is a more powerful un:bindAll tag which will bind all constants in a class/interface into the session. I seem to recall that Java web containers also have the ability to run a class on startup (?) so another approach might be to have something nice tucked in there. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
