i have found that my global forwards almost always contain my menu items, and thus it would be convenient to have an extra attribute on the forward element like "text" or "menu", the value of which could be presented in a jsp and would allow direct iteration through the forwards collection to generate a menu based on which forwards supplied a menu or text attribute. right now i have to hook into the forwards collection externally, using text supplied from another configuration file in order to avoid having the paths in two different places in my app. has anyone else run into this? is there a standard way that this is being handled? if there is a reason why this is being avoided, i'd be interested in hearing that as well.
tia, jc
