Hi Riyad, I used tomcat-4.1.x and struts-1.1 with the contributed JSTL libraries thus I could you use EL expressions also in tomcat-4.1. What is the difference between TC-4.1 and TC-5.0 about the EL expressions?
Zsolt > -----Original Message----- > From: Riyad Kalla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:47 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: version confusion > > > Brian, > This can definately get confusing if you are just thrown into the mix. > > Tomcat 5 is definately the right way to go, its faster, more stable and > supports newer specs. Struts, IIRC, is designed to only need the > Servlet 2.2 > and JSP 1.0 or 1.1 spec, it was meant to be super-compatible, > soyou should be > safe. > > There is information on the Struts page (under future direction) where it > explains that the next Struts 2.0 release might change to require Servlet > 2.3/JSP 1.2 I believe it was. > > As far as JSTL, just get the newest version possible. JSTL it a set of > taglibs, and JSP has supported taglibs for a while. But if you > want to get > fancy with the Expression Language support in JSTL, then you will need a > container that supports Servlet 2.4 spec (which Tomcat 5 does just fine). > > > I believe I've left out gaping holes of information, and may even > be wrong, > but AFAIK this is the gist of the version information you need. Generally > going with the newest stuff you can find is pretty safe, especially with > Jakarta projects (stuff comming out of apache group). They have > one of the > strictest (I love it) release cycles I've ever seen when it comes > to shipping > stable stuff. > > I hope that helped atleast a little, > Riyad > > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 01:31 pm, Barnett, Brian W. wrote: > > I'm a recent convert to java (from micro$oft... shhhhh) and i'm still > > trying to understand which versions of which products work > together. I just > > got Tomcat 5.x, which implements Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0. Does > it matter > > if I use Struts 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 with this? Why? > > > > > > > > How does the version of the JRE affect things? How do I know > which version > > of the JSTL I need? > > > > > > > > Is there some good reading on these topics somewhere? (A > document that can > > explain how all these products work together and how the version of one > > affects the version of another?) > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian Barnett > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
