On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Eric W Hauser wrote: > > > If you want to use constant fields, check out the archives for this > > list...There have been some good posts in the last couple of weeks on how > > to accomplish this...JSTL does not provide a mechanism for retrieving > > constant values from classes...Of course, there is a tag for it in the > > unstandard library...But something about an unstandard library as part of > > a standard library just gives me a headache...So, I would stay away from > > that and use solutions based on the J2EE spec... > > The reason why I make sure people are aware of the unstandard-library > approach is that they may not have Actions or Servlets. The Java community > has a very bad habit of assuming that every situation requires Java > coding. This is pretty bad for a web-designer who doesn't understand Java > but is quite happy with tags. > > Unstandard taglib exists primarily for people who do not have a Servlet or > use one of the Model-2 MVC setups. Something I do plan to add is a more > powerful un:bindAll tag which will bind all constants in a class/interface > into the session. > > I seem to recall that Java web containers also have the ability to run a > class on startup (?) so another approach might be to have something nice > tucked in there. > > Hen >
That approach requires using the interface ServletContextListener and setting that up in your web.xml...That is my prefered way of achieving those results... ------------------- Eric Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] (317) 679-4766 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
