RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread Karr, David
Read the JSTL specification. It should clarify some of these issues. If you write pages that avoid using scriptlets (perhaps by concentrating on the MVC paradigm), you won't have these issues (except for the constants issue). If you have specific questions about the JSTL, it would be better to

RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread Dan Eklund
one of the things I've liked about struts is its ability to filter into legacy code without asking too much... The issues I presented are of some concern to anyone who is thinking about using the struts-el libraries. I think, unlike the other struts tags, that these libraries are not

RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dan Eklund wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:25:43 -0400 From: Dan Eklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions one

RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dan Eklund wrote: (It pains me to use the word 'legacy' for code that is less than 3 years old) I feel your pain! I committed the very first Struts code to CVS on May 31, 2000 (just barely over three years ago), and quite a few people consider *it* to be 'legacy' already

RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread David Graham
It is a hard (nearly impossible) task to convince some management teams that in order to use this new (and I think better) technology, we will have to adopt an entirely new paradigm where taglibs perform operations and EL accesses data. I wouldn't say it's a new paradigm. It's faster, easier, and

RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread Steve Raeburn
? Is there a straightforward solution or do we have to abandon dotted notation for scoped attributes? Steve -Original Message- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 4, 2003 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions It is a hard

RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions

2003-06-05 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
, 4 Jun 2003 19:13:55 -0700 From: Steve Raeburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: struts (and JSTL) expression language questions I've just started looking at using JSTL