It is a nice trick. What would be even nicer is when JSP 2.0 comes out and allows JSTL support of method calls and static variables ;) -Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:16 AM To: Tag Libraries Users List Subject: Re: Java constants as attribute values Nice trick :) On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Serge Knystautas wrote: > Karr, David wrote: > > The JSTL EL references JavaBeans properties, collections, and maps. That's it. If you want to reference a constant, you'll have to have your business or setup logic put the constant into a JavaBean property, collection, or map. > > What we did was create a servlet context listener that using reflection > to inspect a Constants object and store these values as application > scope attributes. This allowed... > > session.getAttribute(Constant.BLAH) > > to be equivalent to > > $sessionScope[BLAH] > > The dynamic reflector meant we had no extra work to expose these > constant values to EL as we added them for our Java code. > > -- > Serge Knystautas > President > Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com > p. 301.656.5501 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
