". for instance, one of my components creates a table. another component builds on that and creates a table of checkboxes. doing this in a taglib is impossible ( tomy knowledge ), "
Sounds like you need to expand your knowledge. Coming from a WebObjects (Apple) background is the main problem... you aint in Kansas anymore. You really need to spend some time studying taglibs and JSP's and forget about WebObjects! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack Frosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Wondering About Struts... > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jack Frosch wrote: > > > Having only worked with Struts for a couple of months, I'm beginning to > > wonder about the costs and benefits of using Struts, or any other JSP tag > > library, for that matter. > > [SNIP] > > the big problem ive been having, coming from a WebObjects environment, is > that its not so easy to set up reusable components. for instance, one of > my components creates a table. another component builds on that and > creates a table of checkboxes. doing this in a taglib is impossible ( to > my knowledge ), so one has to do it ina JSP. icky. > > taglibs seem to be kind of one-shot deals: they render a font tag, an > image tag, a table tag, print out the value of a bean, etc. and thats it. > in one of the current projects im working on, we need to display search > results in a specific manner. however, there are at least 7 different > ways to generate search results, each of which has their own action ( > with some common search classes shared in between them all ). i wasnt > able to just say "ok, this component will display an item the way we want > it. as you're looping through, just use this one component." that irked > me greatly. its partially due to Tomcat 3.x not supporting jsp:include's > inside of custom tags, so i am taking that into consideration... but for > the most part, im unimpressed with taglibs. > > --- > Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.toodarkpark.org > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
