My team is starting a new project with Struts. In our previous Struts projects, our JSPs used mostly tags from the Struts tag libraries. For our new project, I want my team to start using the JSTL. For that reason, the "Struts-EL" subproject is very appealing because it will force our developers to learn the JSTL -- as functionality duplicated in the Struts libraries (Bean & Logic) are removed when it is available in the JSTL. Obviously, we'll still be using many of the Struts tags -- especially those tied to the Struts framework (e.g. all tags in the Struts "html" library). However, we're not sure whether to use the "Request Time" (RT) version or the "Expression Language" (EL) version of the JSTL library. And we have the same question for the "Struts" subproject (Struts-EL or Struts-RT)?
Does anyone have any advice here? Will JSTL compliant application servers be required to implement a "EL" and "RT" version of the JSTL, or will they only have to implement the "EL" version? One other issue: We want to reference constants declared in our Java files in our JSP. These are often the bean or error key constants. This helps guard against a String typo in the JSP as any mistyped constant name will get caught a JSP compile time -- where a string typo will not be detected until JSP execution time. Does anyone how to reference Java variables in your JSP if you're using the JSTL-EL tags? Is this even possible? If not, what are the alternatives? Thanks, JOHN -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
