On 21 Mar 2003, Dave Newton wrote:
> So... to me this implies that JSP 2.0 is moving closer to something
> like Velocity and focusing less on custom tags. Is this a correct
> assessment or is there more to the 2.0 custom tags that I don't know
> about? (I admit I haven't read any specs, so feel free to give me a
> hearty RTFM :)
>
> I thought one of the points of JSP was to keep content/scripting
> looking XML/HTML-ish for the benefit of page designers.
The only change is that expressions will be promoted to the level of
scripting expressions in order to simplify page syntax; the focus hasn't
changed. In other words, instead of
<%= pageContext.findAttribute("foo") %>
you'd simply write
${foo}
in JSP 2.0.
--
Shawn Bayern
"JSTL in Action" http://www.manning.com/bayern
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