Hello Luis,
Let's say we have this in a JSP:
<foo:bar baz="123" baz2="234"/>
Some text
<foo:bar baz="123"/>
In a JSP container, tags might be reused (the tag instances are pooled), so
when the tag foo:bar is used for the second time above, the optional
attribute baz2 may still have the value "234" since the same instance as
before is used, so when having optional attributes like above, you have to
be careful.
This is exactly what the pet store is doing and they assume that the tag
will not be reused (that they get a clean instance every time). This
probably comes from the fact that they implemented using the J2EE RI. The
J2EE RI is not meant to be fast, but just to follow the spec, so that
implementation does not reuse the tag instances.
So when they tested the petstore on the RI it worked fine, but it did not
work in containers doing this optimization. For this reason we provided a
property for Orion to turn off the tag instance reuse optimization.
Regards,
Karl Avedal
Luis M Bernardo wrote:
> hello,
>
> can someone explain what's wrong with the pet store taglibs that we need
> to use the switch -Djsp.reuse.tags=false when running the orion port of
> that demo.
>
> thanx.
> luis
