Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> Right now, I'm inclined to create a new tag library in
> Taglibs that mimics portions of the Struts tags. I
> think the duplication is justifiable. Ideally this
> would not be necessary, but I think that the Struts
> tags are just too, well, Struts-ish for developers who
> are not working inside that framework. (This is not a
> criticism, just an observation!) And of course, any
> new approaches we develop in scopes (e.g. I don't see
> any init parameter support in the Struts tags) can be
> picked up by Struts too.
That seems like a sensible approach, Morgan. Here's a clip from a Struts
FAQ I'm drafting.
"Why aren't the Struts tags maintained as part of the Jakarta Taglibs
project?
"A few of the Struts tags could be maintained outside of the framework,
but most accept parameters that are in someway tied to the rest of
Struts, especially references to the Controller's action mappings. This
is an important feature, since it allows the view to be developed using
logical forwards, which could be maintained by another team. Ironically,
for the view to be "loosely coupled" to the Controller, most of the view
tags need to be tightly coupled to the framework."
-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
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