Well, I am completely new to the subject, but when I'll put it in action (not to use someone else's words here :)) and if I'll decide that this is better than my current architecture, I'll write to you and say...Hey Mark, JSTL and Struts-el it's easier than Struts taglibs!!!
Cheerse, Marco ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:17 PM Subject: Re: JSTL and Struts-el > All this came up a few weeks ago, so I made a couple of JSP's and asked > some folks who're good HTML'ist's to tell me what they thought was > going on in the pages. I didn't ask any "experts" but some folks who > use this stuff. > > Oh .. and guess what I found? The out of the 5 people I've asked so far > in my little study that out of 5 examples I made all 5 of them > described more accurately what was going on using struts tags than with > JSLT. > > Criticisms of my little pilot include: The examples given kept a lot of > the code in action servlets and in some situations using JSLT some > teams might choose not to do this; Ecological validity: that I didn't > provide a real world problem to actually solve but rather I gave pre > made pages , so more of a maintenance scenario (albeit an important > one). > > Perhaps looking into a comparison between using action and struts tags > combo would be a better test. But nobody's talking about not using > action servlets so I'm not sure this would even things up.. > > While this was only to satisfy my own curiosity it more than I've seen > published on the matter elsewhere. I also understand that its pragmatic > reasons why maintaining a proprietary tag lib could be a distraction > from the real business of struts, but I don't want folks telling me its > easier when the fact is this isn't known. > > Cheers Mark > > On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 06:24 PM, Reinhard wrote: > > > Mark Lowe wrote: > >> Has this "easier to use" premiss been run past any folks with good > >> markup skills, but aren't programmers as such? > > > > I believe, that tags aren't targeted to programmers but to designers, > > which > > where supposed to have less programmer skills. > > This may be true only for bigger projects ... > > > > cheers Reinhard > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]