On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Nathan Bubna wrote:
[big snip] > > > > > > #showNavBar( true) > > > > > > > Fine ... still looks like a scriptlet to me :-). > > looks can be deceiving! with a proper velocimacro, the HTML isn't > hard-coded into java classes. that may not be important to some folks, but > it is to me. i think it goes a long way toward *encouraging* good MVC > separation. it's not just a matter of syntax, but of design philosophy as > well. > A similar feature is part of JSP 2.0, by the way. A page author can point at a chunk of JSP code (rather than Java) and create a reusable widget, optionally with parameters, which the JSP compiler essentially turns into a custom tag automatically. The page author using the widget invokes it just like any other custom tag. Among other things, this supports the kind of separation you suggest. > Nathan Bubna > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
