On Fri, 10 May 2002, Carole E. Mah wrote: > Is it possible for us to get hold of your source code for any given > tag library? > > Not to modify it, but just in order to understand the tag libraries > better. > > Also, the doc and examples in standard-examples.war and standard-doc.war > don't seem to bear too much resemblace to javadoc!
Yes, all of the code for JSTL is available in the Jakarta Taglibs CVS archive, or from the Jakarta web site as nightly builds. You can start by clicking "source" under the http://jakarta.apache.org main page. We (the JSTL RI team) have done our best to make sure that the RI code uses consistent conventions. In particular areas -- TLDs, EL support, lifecycle-protocol correctness and explication, XML support -- I've personally tried to make it very easy for people to use the JSTL source as a learning tool. It's all well-commented and Javadoc'd. > Are people in the process of doing javadoc for the JSTL taglibs? > Non-JSTL taglibs like DBTags have great javadoc online (this is why I > ask, as a point of comparison). I'm not sure which "Javadoc" you're referring to. We don't have documentation for JSTL up in the Jakarta Taglibs format; we could do this, but between the spec and the examples, the coverage is already pretty comprehensive. And everything is commented using standard Javadoc facilities; the Javadoc should in all cases be current with respect to the behavior of any methods and classes. Always feel free to let me know if you've got any specific questions about how a feature is implemented; I'm very happy to discuss and debate different approaches. -- Shawn Bayern "JSP Standard Tag Library" http://www.jstlbook.com (coming this summer from Manning Publications) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
