At 10:00 PM 4/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, James Howe wrote:
>
> > I apologize in advance if this topic has come up before, but ...
> >
> > I'm building a Struts JSP page containing a form. I've noticed that the
> > HTML tags typically do not require the specification of a "name" attribute
> > in order to retrieve property values from a bean. If the name isn't
> > specified, the property value is retrieved from the bean associated with
> > the form. However, logic tags require the use of the name attribute in
> > order to retrieve a property. [...]
>
>The HTML-oriented tags that allow you to default the "name" attribute can
>*only* be used within an <html:form> tag -- they are not useful in any
>other context.
>
>The logic tags (and the bean tags as well) are general purpose tools,
>useful either inside or outside a form. It would be technically feasible
>to do what you suggest, but IMHO it would be very confusing to have the
>same tag do two different things depending on whether you nested it or
>not.
>
>Craig
I understand your point. How about if there were a new tag in Struts
called "defaultName" (or something similar). In the defaultName tag, you
could identify a bean which automatically be referred to by all other tags
unless a different bean name attribute were specified on a tag. This would
let you include common code and the common code wouldn't have to know the
name of the bean from which it got its value unless it wanted to.
James W. Howe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
