"Lacerda, Wellington (AFIS)" wrote:
> If you can identify consistent patterns in your scriptlet usage, yes.
> Otherwise it's questionable. Even the division of labor is questionable case
> you can't, because page designers will end up having to deal with several
> different tags used once or twice among the several pages (which tag for
> what in which page ?).
>
> So, the idea is to plan in advance. Heavily.
>
One more issue to consider is development tools support.
As we look into the (very) near-term future, we see tools that are starting to
support custom tags in exciting ways, including creating the actual visual
representation by running a servlet container in the background while you are
developing. Thanks to the TLD, an IDE can create a nice UI for selecting
available custom tags, populating the attributes (including knowing about
required attributes and those that take runtime expressions), and so on.
Pretty much none of this is possible if you are using scriptlets.
To say nothing of the fact that you now need Java developers to maintain your
pages ...
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Wellington
>
Craig McClanahan
