"I would caution new projects, however, to *not* use the Struts HTML tags. That part of Struts has received fairly little developer attention, and should be considered legacy at this point."
This quote has no attribution, but as a committer, I would disagree with this assertion. There are certain cases for which the HTML tag library are still by far the best way to solve problems, and for those cases, they are still recommended.
The caveat, which may or may not have been the intention of the original writer, is that where JSTL provides functionality which is essentially identical to any of Struts tag libraries, the community seems generally inclined to direct people to drop the Struts tags in favor of the JSTL tags. In fact, these duplications are mostly in the "logic" and "bean" tag libraries, while there is little if anything in the "html" library which has been superceded.
It seems likely to me that there will always be value in the Struts tags that encapsulate knowledge about the Struts framework, such as where to retrieve an ActionMessages object stored by saveErrors() or saveMessages().
At 5:09 PM -0400 4/12/05, Dave Newton wrote:
They have gotten _some_ attention, which is nice, but they haven't been as aggressively refactored as much of the real framework has, which has certainly caused me extra work. Not refactoring work, either; no time. But it might happen.
Just curious, Dave -- what kind of extra work?
Joe
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