--- Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Whether the "classic" and "el" taglibs are one chunk or two isn't > >> hugely important to me either -- I would prefer that this decision > be > >> made by developers who've done more work on that code to date. > >> However, I did find that when I patched > >> o.a.s.t.html.JavascriptValidator, I had to go and make a > >> corresponding change in the EL version. I suspect that changes in > >> those two libraries are going to track pretty tightly. But like I > >> said, I'm not pushing for this; just floating it... > > > >Is there any reason that the EL tags wouldn't replace the existing tags > >for Struts 2.0? Also, IMO, many of the tags can be removed entirely > for > >2.0 because they've been replaced by more powerful counterparts in the > >JSTL. > > As I've been saying (a lot, it seems, lately) on struts-user, I think > there are legitimate Struts JSP tags like "html:messages" that are > not best replaced by JSTL. Any time Struts tools put resources in > special locations in request or session scope, I think it's nice to > have tags which know the special locations, instead of expecting > people to dig in and find them. And, for example with html:messages, > the message-property filtering is a useful feature that would require > a lot of verbose JSTL to achieve the same goal. > > So, I'd suspect even in 2.0 there will be arguments for a small > Struts taglib. But I am 100% on board with pushing people to use the > JSTL where it is really equivalent.
Yep, notice I mentioned removing "many" tags and not *all* tags :-). There are certainly tags we should keep around but I just don't see a need for most of the logic and bean tags in Struts 2.0. David > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them > the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and > nobody thinks of complaining." > -- Jef Raskin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
