I was thinking about just typing them, instead of searching around for something to cut and paste. The point is that the logic is one place. That's one the intents of OO right? If you know Java, then you can easily learn to write taglibs. It's not that difficult, if anyone out there is afraid of taglibs because they seem too difficult to understand, then don't be, they aren't.
-Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:35 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Rendering alternate rows of a table in Struts > > > Oh, and cutting and pasting tags is better? With scriptlets, > you need to > know one thing: Java. With taglibs you must expand and > juggle knowledge by > an order of magnitude. Anybody who knows Java can understand > a scriptlet; > the converse cannot be said of taglibs. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Durham David Cntr 805CSS/SCBE > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:25 PM > > Taglibs aren't just useful to people working with HTML, they > are a great way > to reuse logic in JSP's. Cutting and pasting scriplets IMO is not. > > -Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:07 PM > > > > Well, let's be honest, dude. The great idea behind taglibs > > in the first > > place was to allow non-developers such as HTMLers and graphic > > artists to be > > able to manipulate content without understanding a > > programming language and > > keep real programmers (yes, I have a definition, if you are > > interested) from > > having to maintain the presentation layer. Now, from that > > perspective, look > > and my example and look at yours. Which is going to be clearer to a > > non-programmer? > > > > Otherwise, look how complex using a taglib is to integrate into an > > application, to say nothing of what it takes to develop a custom > > taglib (I've done it). I may sound like a heretic, but in my mind, > > SIMPLE scriptlets are better than a tag to do the same thing - from > > development, > > integration, and maintenance perspectives. > > > > Mark (they don't call me Chief Eating Crow for nothing) Galbreath > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Kischuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:13 AM > > > > > That's all well and good but what happens when the author > no longer > > supports > > > it, technology moves on, and somebody behind you has got to > > maintain > > > it? Doing it with scriptlets is as easy as > > > > > > <% int count = 0 %> > > > <logic:iterate . . .> > > > <% if( count % 2 == 0 ) { %> > > > <tr bgcolor="coral"> > > > <td></td> > > > <% } else { %> > > > <tr bgcolor="fuscia"> > > > <td></td> > > > <% } %> > > > </tr> > > > <% count++ %> > > > </logic:iterate> > > > > > > What could be simpler and clearer? This methodology is > > much easier to > > > maintain than some esoteric third-party tags. > > > > <c:forEach var="currItem" items="${myCollection}" varStatus="info"> > > <c:if test="${info.count % 2 == 0}"> > > <tr bgcolor="coral"> > > </c:if> > > <c:if test="${info.count % 2 == 1}"> > > <tr bgcolor="fuschia"> > > </c:if> > > <td>blah blah</td> > > </tr> > > </c:forEach> > > > > Simple. Clear. Standard. The logic is plain, JSTL isn't > > going to have the > > maintenance issues you mention, and there's no nasty > > scriptlet delimiters > > muddling the mix. > > > > -Rob > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
