I'd be interested in seeing them as part of the project. If they are
useful the flaws will be eliminated - that's the beauty of open source. If
they aren't useful they can eventually be removed. I'm always in favor of
more choices and I'm sure I could use at least the logging tags.
At 09:36 AM 04/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Due to the gentle urgings of James Strachan, I've decided I'm willing to
>apportion a few of my taglibs to jakarta, if you guys want them. The taglibs
>in question are the rewritetags, logtags, and filetags.
>
>Rewrite is a simple url-correction tag. For example, <rewrite:a
>href="/mypage.html">My Page</rewrite:a) in a web application in the "myapp"
>context has the href rewritten to be "/myapp/mypage.html". This is simple,
>and it's possible Jakarta already has an example of this. This should be
>improved; some bright soul might see the benefit in having a tag that only
>rewrites the URL and not the whole tag. (This semi-bright soul does, but
>this tag was written as a quick hack that turned out to be largely useful
>despite its hackiness.)
>
>Logtags is a taglib that maps nearly directly on top of Log4J, with
><log:error /> and so forth. The only difficulty is that it maps nearly
>directly on top of Log4J, which - while it's a great logging library - can
>hardly be seen as the ONLY logging library.
>
>Filetags is a mechanism for reading files (not resources!) for quoting
>purposes; where example code is seen on my site for JSP pages, filetags is
>doing the work of reading the source files from the disk. If you're using a
>.WAR instead of a directory tree, this doesn't work so well.
>
>All slightly flawed, IMHO, which is why I've never considered them as
>prominently as the formtags, transformtags, or webcompass, but certainly
>moderately useful, and improvable. If you'd like them, let me know -- note
>that this isn't the first time I've offered them, so you can hardly hurt my
>feelings by ignoring them yet again. :)
>
>
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>http://epesh.com/ IT Consultant
