Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:47:14 +1200, Jason Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomcat 5 includes *"JSP Custom Tag Pooling* - The java objects > instantiated for JSP Custom Tags can now be pooled and reused. This > significantly boosts the performance of JSP pages which use custom tags." > This is tru

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jason Lea
Tomcat 5 includes *"JSP Custom Tag Pooling* - The java objects instantiated for JSP Custom Tags can now be pooled and reused. This significantly boosts the performance of JSP pages which use custom tags." I seem to remember reading somewhere (can't remember where, does someone have a link) that

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread David Durham
Craig McClanahan wrote: (1) Scriptlets, since they are Java code, require someone at least passably familiar with Java to change them later. If you have folks that are primarily page authors, you are faced with a cost of teaching them enough about Java syntax to make the code it needs to do, or hav

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Woodchuck
--- Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:21:58 -0700 (PDT), Woodchuck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sorry to bring this up on a Friday... > > Yah, I didn't know we could have serious discussions on Fridays any > more :-). Monday is just as bad i guess... nobod

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:21:58 -0700 (PDT), Woodchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry to bring this up on a Friday... Yah, I didn't know we could have serious discussions on Fridays any more :-). > > does everyone here have pure Struts/JSTL jsp pages that is absolutely > void of scriptlets? Ex

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Michael McGrady
I have not heard of the 80/20 view. I definitely spend the majority of my time coding: I would be more like 10/90. However, on most design issues, the ideas in circulation are the ones I use and I don't have to reinvent the axel. (Why people talk about reinventing the wheel is a mystery to m

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Woodchuck
--- Michael McGrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Woodchuck wrote: > > >hehe, you make it sound as if scriptlets are the ball and chain and > >shackles that you are free from! > > > >no doubt that scriptlets can easily fit that description, but i > guess > >what i'm referring to are 'nice' script

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Michael McGrady
Woodchuck wrote: hehe, you make it sound as if scriptlets are the ball and chain and shackles that you are free from! no doubt that scriptlets can easily fit that description, but i guess what i'm referring to are 'nice' scriptlets :) little tiny scriptlets that are hands down easier than than the

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Woodchuck
hehe, you make it sound as if scriptlets are the ball and chain and shackles that you are free from! no doubt that scriptlets can easily fit that description, but i guess what i'm referring to are 'nice' scriptlets :) little tiny scriptlets that are hands down easier than than the would-be non-sc

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 11:21 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > --- Jim Barrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Woodchuck
--- "Taylor, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wherever possible we try to use only tag libs in JSP pages. When we > feel the > need to resort to scriptlets, it usually means that we are doing more > than > presentation logic in the JSP page. Or there is reusable code that > can be > pulled int

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Woodchuck
--- Jim Barrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:22 AM > > To: struts > > Subject: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > > > > sorry to bring this up on a

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Michael McGrady
Jim Barrows wrote: Mozilla is the core behind netscape. Not sure about firefox, as that's pretty much all new code. The original mozilla is all netscape based code, and netscape still uses the latest mozilla as their core. Gotcha, Jim. You might find the following of interest: http://www.m

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 11:03 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > Jim Barrows wrote: > > >Con

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Michael McGrady
Jim Barrows wrote: Considering that Netscape is mozilla. how so? Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.com) versus Netscape 7.1 (www.netscape.com). Why do you mean by "Netscape is [M]ozilla"? I am going to learn something new here. Yippity skippity! Michael

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Taylor, Kevin
Wherever possible we try to use only tag libs in JSP pages. When we feel the need to resort to scriptlets, it usually means that we are doing more than presentation logic in the JSP page. Or there is reusable code that can be pulled into a custom tag lib. The only exception to this that I have see

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:55 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > Jim Barrows wrote: > > > >

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:49 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > One thing i would suggest, is that if you

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Michael McGrady
Jim Barrows wrote: Are you restarting the server, or the app? On tomcat it takes me about 30 seconds to do the same... then again that's on my own local server with nothing else running. I concur. Bouncing the app instead of the server is so sweet. Also, a little tip, doing this is especiall

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Daniel Perry
2004 18:48 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > > --- Daniel Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hah forget the 'purist' approach! > > > > I use jstl / struts taglib

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:42 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > > Using scriptlets, to me is like goi

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Woodchuck
--- Daniel Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hah forget the 'purist' approach! > > I use jstl / struts taglibs whereever possible. > > if i had a choice between writing my on taglib or scriptlet for > me > scriptlet wins - much less hassel, and the code is there for you on > the jsp, > and

Re: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Michael McGrady
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I have freed myself of scriptlets on all pages except my entry page. I just have not bothered to clean up the entry page as yet. I think getting rid of them is a good philosophical position but it is so because the result

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Daniel Perry
> Using scriptlets, to me is like going back to the bad old days of > out.println(" -Original Message- > From: Jim Barrows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 August 2004 18:35 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: philosophical question/poll about

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Daniel Perry
hah forget the 'purist' approach! I use jstl / struts taglibs whereever possible. if i had a choice between writing my on taglib or scriptlet for me scriptlet wins - much less hassel, and the code is there for you on the jsp, and it's only normally for very simple things. The main times i us

RE: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets

2004-08-27 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:22 AM > To: struts > Subject: philosophical question/poll about Struts/JSTL, scriptlets > > > sorry to bring this up on a Friday... > > does everyone here have pure Struts/JSTL jsp pages