On 4 Aug 2002, Arron Bates wrote:
> Date: 04 Aug 2002 03:39:32 +1000
> From: Arron Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Struts-EL: Ideas about "name" and indexed "name" attributes?
>
> > One thing we do give up (I think) is the implicit nesting of form field
> > names (specified in the "property" attribute) inside the variable name of
> > the form bean itself. I guess the same is true of the "with"-like
> > facilities of the entire nested tag library.
> >
> > It will be interesting to see if we can come up with a way to keep this --
> > perhaps by composing a compound expression on the fly.
> >
> > Craig
>
> thought about it a little, and there doesn't seem to be an obvious fit
> to pairing the evaluation to a complex bean structure ready for
> BeanUtils without explicit handling. if it does happen it'll be a
> concoction of our making rather than something that just slides in
> there. think maybe the nested tags will become victim to the jstl. oh
> well. in this regard I think the jstl is lacking a little power for use
> with Struts. though I am bias, you can do some truly funky stuff with
> Struts when its marked up with the nested tags. But they're hardly a
> standard.
>
If we can come up with something generic that is similar to the nested
tags concept, but is not Struts specific, it could certainly be considered
for JSTL 1.1.
> Lately been working on a project which has some interesting stuff.
> I've taken a few parts a next step and I get the feeling it's towards
> what I imagine Java Server Faces to turn out to be. Looks like a bright
> future. If if could muster the energy for something open source in the
> future, it'd be the JSF impl. Apache looking at taking on an impl
> project?...
No news at the moment.
> Any chances of getting a backdoor of that spec?... :)
>
Sorry, not until public draft :-).
But keep in mind that I do like the EL expression language ... :-)
> Arron.
>
Craig
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