Agreed. While I'm not a regular WW user these days due to circumstances beyond my control (and I use Velocity with WW rather that JSP anyway), I still try to keep abreast of WW's progress. From what I've read of this debate, one thing is readily apparent. The existing property tag is *not* intuitive. To quote an earlier comment from Mike:
"Well, I actually wrote the original two uses of the PropertyTag (which you are correct - is in fact 3, would you believe I didn't know about the third one? ;))" Correct me if I'm wrong but I am sure that Mike uses WW extensively, and has been doing so for quite some time. If even he didn't know all the subtleties of that tag, what chance does a newbie have? Documentation alone isn't the best solution - docs plus intuitive design is. Has anyone here ever tried to use all the various permutations of the struts <html:select> tag for iteration? There is a lot of documentation for that tag, and I've been using it for quite some time now. But almost without fail I still have to either cut'n'paste existing code, or refer to the documentation to get the damn thing working each and every time! I haven't looked at the replacement tags Anders has submitted so I can't comment on whether those are 'better' or not, but I would encourage everyone in this debate to think about what the taglib should look like in a perfect world, ie *without regard for what currently exists*. THAT should then become the goal for XWork 2.0. Obviously backwards compatibility is crucial, but deprecation can take care of that if need be. Chris "Jason Carreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:CD44D03584C7A249A3F86891B24EB8EA03FDCAB9@;ehost003.intermedia.net... Yeah, not like the current ever-so-transparent ww:property tag that everyone just understands without any explanation. -----Original Message----- From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:hani@;formicary.net] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Property tag (beating the decomposed horse) Excellent! A great way of ensuring nobody is able to use webwork without first going through lots of docs. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
