Andreas Mähler wrote:
I've already tried that, but I don't know Freemaker yet and I don't
even like the code that is generated by the simple theme. (e.g: it was
my intention to write a 100% JavaScript-free webinterface) I also
think that the interface is quirky and not as straightforward as
JSTL's (at least the core tags - i rarely use the other stuff) - but
that's just my opinion. I think I've also discovered a bug in the
s:colgroup tag, so I can't use it. I've opened a ticket[1], but I
think that I'm not allowed to schedule it to - say - the 2.1.3 release
(at least if I don't provide a patch).
Greetings,
~Andreas
I didn't even know s:colgroup existed.
I've been through the same pain and have many times started writing new
tag implementations (less optional attributes, leaner templates) but its
much larger than I expected. Even though I dislike the tags too, they
do have many things going for them to the credit of the original
developers; automatically include field errors in the right place and
(usually) selecting the correct option in a select, populating values
from collections etc. Complex forms become a mess if you don't use them.
FreeMarker is overwhelming at first because the numerous <#rt> tags
distracting from the important fields. I threw together this tool
(http://www.freemarker-tool.com/) specifically for tweaking struts2 tag
templates (see the examples).
In one of my projects, prior to struts 2.0.9, I created a lot of JSP
tags (.tag files) that wrapped struts2 simple tags with more
behaviour/markup. eg. textfields that included a radio button to enable
it first and an attribute to set the radio value. In 2.0.9 EL in
struts2 tags was disallowed so eventually I had to rewrite them as
custom struts 2 tags. Creating the new tags and templates was
surprisingly straight-forward and definitely more productive that copy &
pasting the relevant JSP into every page.
Anyway, hopefully just giving you some ideas.
cheers,
Jeromy
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