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From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Ant2] Tasks as siblings of <target>
> I see it in a similar light to JSP. JSP is dependent on servlet API but
> theoretically there needed to be no changes to servlet API to accomodate
JSPs
> (or XSPs or Velocity Macors or whatever).
I, too, see it similar to JSP except from the Taglib perspective. A
build-file allows plugged in tasks which gives them hooks into the
processing, but allows for powerful things like inner tasks to find their
parent tasks (container concept there with the container providing some
necessary services to its dependents). Taglibs are an often
under-appreciated and under-utilized JSP feature, but the power of what they
can do because of the intrinsic hooks is awesome. Taglibs main selling
point is that they are all about eradicating <% script %> from a JSP. :))
Erik
