Taglibs community, The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) just entered its Public Review stage under the Java Community Process, and Beta 1 of the reference implementation (RI) is now available through Jakarta Taglibs.
This new draft spec and RI milestone solidifies JSTL in a number of respects. After a lot of productive deliberation, the expert group determined the syntax for a single expression language; gone are the vaguely documented, pluggable languages. We've also introduced a few new minor tags and made many tags more flexible and robust. This release includes improved support for all of JSTL's features: support for iteration, conditional logic, URL management (including URL-based information retrieval), XML manipulation, database access, text formatting, and internationalization. The RI (Beta 1) is available at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/releases/standard/ You can read the JSTL public draft at http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr052 Community feedback is still actively sought. You can mail comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, the RI and spec are still subject to change, but we're getting closer and closer to final release. Enjoy! -- Shawn Bayern JSTL reference-implementation lead Author, "JSP Standard Tag Library" http://www.jstlbook.com (coming this spring from Manning Publications) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
