On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Henri Yandell wrote: > Out of interest, I wonder if most of the people who hit this problem > only want access to the name of the column? And then a smaller group > simply want the type? > > [not that I recall if jstl offers this or not].
JSTL offers the name but not the type. (At least, not the "type" in JDBC terms; you can always get the Java object type with '.class'.) > Is it possible to offer a subset of the info in the metadata without > crashing into all the pain? Sure. Offering name in JSTL 1.0 seemed like a suitable "inflection point"; it's possible that more could be offered in the future if it's not problematic and if there's a compelling reason to. -- Shawn Bayern "JSTL in Action" http://www.jstlbook.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
