I have a question concerning the way the org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseHandlerTag class is implemented. In particular, I'm wondering why the methods "prepareFocusEvents", "prepareTextEvents", etc. are private instead of protected. I ran into this today because I wanted to build a custom "text" tag. I was hoping to be able to make a simple extension to struts by subclassing TextTag and overriding the prepareTextEvents method to do some custom behavior. Unfortunately, since prepareTextEvents is private, I can't do that. I'm wondering if anyone can offer a good reason for making these methods private? Thanks.
