Ed,

I'm rather new to Struts and taglibs.. however, this seems like a very useful
taglib project.  Table presentation seems to popup everywhere in business app
web development.  The easy sorting ais cool... Its pretty easy to think of
several other features: intable editing, expandable rows,  etc. that might be
useful.  Thanks for your input.

Jon

Ed Hill wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A few weeks ago, I mentioned in the struts-user list a tag library that we
> are developing which at the time I called gui:table...  I didn't have the
> source ready to go at the time - but rather then trying to get it perfect in
> isolation, I'll risk the public humiliation and go ahead and make available
> what I have now and try to work with others who are interested in
> helping me polish it up.
>
> Currently, this taglib has a single key tag called "table" that takes a list
> of objects and displays them as a table.  It has various features
> (alternating row colors, using a decorator for formatting, sorting,
> pagination, etc...)
>
> My goal over time will be to add other common "high-level" web display
> patterns to the tag library, for example:
>
>    - display:table
>    - display:tree
>    - display:tabs
>    - display:inspector
>    - etc...
>
> The source to this tag library is available at:
>
>     http://edhill.its.uiowa.edu/downloads/display.zip
>
> Examples, showing usage can be found at:
>
>     http://edhill.its.uiowa.edu/display-examples/
>
> Currently, documentation is little more then just the examples.
>
> To be honest, my original intention was to donate this taglib to struts if
> there was interest, as we are heavy struts users here at the U of Iowa, and
> I wanted to give back if possible, but there is nothing "struts-specific"
> about the taglib (other then using some struts-like naming conventions for
> attributes), so it is probably more appropriately a candidate for the taglib
> project, and as such, I have been working on getting the build process for
> the tag working in a jakarta-taglib style.
>
> I welcome any and all feedback and advice.  If this taglib seems like
> something that would be useful for either struts or taglibs, please let me
> know, and I'll be happy to work with either group to get it put into CVS and
> on a more serious release schedule.
>
> I am currently being presumptuous, and have the taglib living in the
> org.apache.taglibs.display package, but if this doesn't seem like something
> that would be of use to taglibs, I will certainly change the packaging to
> something more appropriate.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Ed Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Software Developer - Information Technology Services - University of Iowa
>
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