On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Steve Bang wrote:
> Can anyone point me to how we could add expression language support to
> our commercial tag library? It sounds like we have to do a bit more
> than just say that we support it. I think I read that we need to add
> support for a few abstract classes. What's involved? Where can I find
> the details? I need to be able to tell our Java developers what they
> need to do. I'm trying to get an enhancement request in ASAP, in
> hopes that it can make it into our next release, which will be after
> JTSTL 1.0 ships.
To integrate the EL into your tags -- a process that should be understood
NOT to be a use of JCP standards but instead a matter of taking advantage
of some tools provided in the JSTL RI -- you could simply call methods in
a class provided by the RI to handle expression interpretation.
Of course, nothing stops you from writing your own interpreter for the
JSTL EL and using it in your tags. But I suspect that integrating the RI
code will be substantially easier. Essentially, the interface will
probably look something like
JstlExpressionInterpreter el = ... getInterpreter(...);
ExpectedType result = (ExpectedType) el.evaluate(expression,
ExpectedType.class,
pageContext);
--
Shawn Bayern
Author, "JSP Standard Tag Library" http://www.jstlbook.com
(coming this spring from Manning Publications)
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