Suggestions on and tags

[John Yu]

It would be useful to have an 'alt' attribute on <bean:message> tag. eg.

  <bean:message key="blah" alt="DefaultLabel"/>

There are two uses:

• In case Struts fails to find the message/resource, it can display the default label (and display a warning on the console).
• For design-time tools (eg. Dreamweaver), it will be easier for the tools to display some meaningful mock-up labels at design-time.

Similarly, for <bean:write>, we can have
 
  <bean:write name="blah" property="blah" mock="MockLabel"/>

What do you think?

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