Rick Herrick wrote: > Ed Webb wrote: > >> fea jabi wrote: >> >>> Thanks for your responses. I appreciate that. >>> >>> I used the JSTL to format the date. Will it work using that? Do I have >>> to >>> use decorator itself? >>> >> Use the Decorator instead >> > > I was actually going to suggest using JSTL for the date format. That lets > the sort work on the date object directly (instead of the text > representation of the date), but doesn't require extra code. I have an > adversion to using decorators. Also, the JSTL date format is easily > localizable and easily changeable in a deployed app, whereas changes to > code require redeployment or hot-patching of the app. > > Why would you recommend using the decorator instead? > From what I remember from the original post, using the JSTL did not allow the dates to be sorted chronologically, they were being sorted alphabetically. If the JSTL can be used to format the date and DisplayTag can correctly sort the Date objects then that'd be the easier option. I think that's already been tried and found to not work which is why I suggested a Decorator. I suspect I encountered a similar problem when I began working with DisplayTag but it was so long ago now that I've forgotten.
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