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From: Michael Gerdau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL - specialized taglib for fast interface development]
> Why not try to add your more specialized tags to the other taglibs
> under new names or by adding additional options to the existing tags ?
Well, I am not sure about that as struts-light tags are specialized tags and does not
allow to do the same thing as the
tags now in struts taglibs.
>From a design point of view I think your taglib shouldn't merely copy
>code from other taglibs as that would require changes in more than
>one place should the original ever need changing.
That is sure. The actual code is just a first try to show the idea of the taglib. A
good design should be found so that
it can evolve easily. However, it's need some though as
- Some struts-light tags do the job of more than one usal tag. So it is impossible to
just extend a tag.
- struts:html tags do nearly all the job in doStartTag and doEndTag. So it is
difficult to, for example extends the Form
tag to include presentation code. Maybe something like this is enough for some tags :
public myNewFormTag extends FormTag
public int doStartTag()
// do some stuff before the <form> tag
doSomething();
int i = super.doStartTag();
// do some other stuff after the <form> tag
doSomeOtherThing();
return i;
}
but some others may not be implemented this way.
I am thinking about this.
>Best,
>Michael
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