-----Original Message-----
From: Craig R. McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Brad Neuberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: calling bean-methods...
>Brad Neuberg wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 May 1999, Tommy Berglund wrote:
>>
>> > I've got a problem and it would really help if someone could answer it.
>> > The problem is that I want to call a method in my bean when an event is
>> > triggered in my .jsp document. The code looks something like this...
>> >
>> > <USEBEAN name = "bean" type = "beans.bean" lifespan =
session></USEBEAN>
>>
>> This isn't part of the spec, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to mimic
>> JavaScript and add something like this to any html tag:
>>
>> <A HREF="somelink" jsp:onClick="bean.someMethod()">Look mah, a link!</a>
>>
>> Damn that would be nice.... I think the JavaScript model of generalized
>> event handlers (like onClick, onLoad, etc.) is a great model that should
>> be generalized to XML (so that you could onSomeEvent anything). Is this
>> part of DOM Level 2?
>>
>
>I can think of at least one reason it's not there -- JavaScript event
handlers
>execute inside your client (usually a web browser), whereas the JSP beans
live
>inside the server. How would bean.someMethod() get called?
>
>Craig McClanahan
>
I meant to use onEvent event handlers on the server side as well. So what
would happen is that the server-side onEvent handler would be replaced with
appropriate normal html before being sent out to the client - just as is
what happens to JSP itself.
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