Re: AJAX Jsp tags

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Pratt
Excellent post Ken. I absolutely agree with everything you mention. I too use jQuery and jQuery UI directly in my JSP templates (not through some tag library) and find it easier and more powerful. I can also throw in a +1 for Tiles as a compositing technology that is indispensable in large sites

Re: AJAX Jsp tags

2013-08-11 Thread Ken McWilliams
I have some experience creating custom struts2 tags, but for ajax I do not advise this route at all. XML is not meant as a replacement for a programming language, it is meant for configuration. It might seem intuitive without further investigation that there are a limited number of HTML UI element