Thanks Stu, your email helps clarify the situation for me. I won't be able to volunteer do the work to get JSTL back into 1.1 now although I did tweak a few tags in JSTL to see if it work with 1.1 just to ask "what if...?" At least it sounds like backporting is a possibility though.
As for my original comment, I noticed that "Standard" is now no longer listed under "JSP 1.1" on the Taglibs page which is probably the way it should be. -Lawrence At 12:54 PM -0700 5/16/02, stuart robertson wrote: >Back in November(?) I modified EA1 to work with JSP >1.1 to use in a "proof of concept" app. The main >incompatibilities I remember offhand were the lack of >the new IteratorTag and TryCatchFinally(?) interfaces. > The expression language had no depencies on JSP 1.2. >Changing the JSTL taglibs to work with 1.1 wasn't >difficult. What was ugly though was that it required >changes to the base classes. The iterator-support >JSTL classes are a good example. I ended up changing >their packages to make it obvious that these aren't >the standard distribution classes. Any tags built on >top of this 1.1-ized JSTL used these modified classes, >and would themselves have to be later modified to work >again with the standard tags. Yuck. > >...in short, I can see why working group didn't want >to do this! But I doubt I'm the only one who wants to >use JSTL functionality and simply doesn't have the >option of using a JSP 1.2 container just yet. There's >benefit to using these temporary ports, since the TLDs >can remain the same, and you can build JSPs that will >work fine under JSP 1.2 (at least that was my >experience). Its just a stop-gap measure, but one >that could get JSTL into projects earlier than would >otherwise be an option. > >If anybody were to place a 1.1-ified JSTL port under >sourceforge, I'm sure it would get used. > >Stu > >>At 02:56 PM 4/25/2002, Lawrence You wrote: >>>I think this is more of a labeling issue on the >taglibs page than anything >>>else but I'm wondering if there's a way I can get >the Standard Taglib to >>>work with JSP 1.1. > >>I believe at least some of the JSTL tags require >>features only available in >>JSP 1.2, but I don't know the specifics. >> > >[...snip...] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
