[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But I want to be able to do something like
>
> <c:out value="${Constants.USER.name}"/>
>
>
> I've never actually tried this. Maybe I should before posting this, but I
> don't know why it would work. I thought the EL only had access to bean
> properties? So why would it be able to access a field directly?
>
Ah. Can't.
Sucks, huh? As Rahul said, push for the fix.
In general, when I've dealt with strong separation between presentation
and back-end teams, I've just said "Hey, you have access to something
through the 'user' name and here's what a 'user' has for you..." If it
needs to change (I don't think I've ever actually changed one) then I
would have just passed on the change.
One project I was marginally involved on (over-)used custom tags to
handle issues like this, so the page designer would just say <x:user
property="name"/> etc. Didn't care for it myself, but JSP 2.0 didn't
exist yet, and we were all pretty anti-scriptlet, so hey.
Dave
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