Zsolt schrieb:
Hi,
Hi,
I need a good tab control for JSP. I have tried struts-layout and http://209.61.157.8:8080/taglibs/?orgDitchnetTabPaneId=overview.
This component is quite good, but requires JSP 2.0 (SimpleTag) and has issues with Tiles (switch off JavaScript and see for yourself). Furthermore, its config tag stubbornly creates its resources in a directory named org.ditchnet right underneath context root, and you can't change that without touching the code. Its main advanta- ge is the expert usage of JavaScript and DHTML you won't find in other components that soon. So there's still room to improve, but the author obviously has a lot of other projects going on and therefore might not find the time to bring this component from current version 0.81 to final anytime soon (enough). My guess. It just hangs there for at least two months now.
Struts-layout doesn't seem to work. Ditchnet seems to be very good however we cannot switch tomcat-5.5 into servlet mode 2.3.
The main obstacle with Struts-layout IMHO is not so much that the tags may not work, but that they don't come clear about their licensing policy for commercial projects on their site once and for all. No, I won't call or send a mail, but buy something else in the meantime. Evaluation itself usually costs much more than license fees. Therefore, I just won't evaluate something I may have to drop later for license or other reasons.
Can you provide me some alternatives?
If you had asked for Tree or DataGrids components, there would be a real abundance of choices nowadays. But the relatively simple TabSheet component still seems to be kind of an orphan to TagLib developers. Still, there are some options. IMHO the best may be *Struts-Menu* which has already been mentioned. There is another component in an (abandonware) suite named ninebits-taglib, IIRC, available from SF and released under the GPL (not LGPL or Apache, so an instant goodbye for commercial projects here). There's another tag available that seems to have been free once, but costs around USD 25 now, if you search the net long enough; I forgot both its name and the URL. Then, there's the ColdTag suite, of course, which also sports a relati- vely simple Tab tag, but costs money for commercial use, as all Coldsuite tags do. If Struts-Menu won't suffice (its good) and as the taglib land seems to be more of an endless plain with very few water spots if your needs are more advanced, this could be one of the few ocasions where one may also look for commercial implementations. My personal favorite in this direction is the common-controls suite (check Google). Pricing seems to be moderate, and even if I hate the term 'runtime license', you also get some quite good standard controls (Tree, TabSheet, Datagrid an so on) which may spare you a lot of work otherwise.
Zsolt
HTH, -- Chris NB. There must have been reasons why <x:tabbedPane> is one of the standard controls in Apache MyFaces. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
