RE: TC3.3 Proposal: Refactoring org.apache.jasper.servlet

[cmanolache]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Steve Downey wrote:

> The second most common cause of bugs in Jasper is confusion over when to use
> File.separator and when to use '/'. It's hard to keep track of, since Jasper
> does deal with both files and URIs. And the File methods are used to
> regularize some URIs. 
> 
> Another reason to refactor.

I would say this is also part of interfacing the jasper with the
container, and not core to the jsp parser and jsp->java convertor ( which 
in my opinion represents the "core" of jasper ).

There is the problem of importing jsps ( and few other cases where files
are needed), but again that's related with the API that is needed to plug 
jasper into a ( cooperating ) container.

Costin

( BTW, my interest is more in the jsp->java convertor area, I would be
interested to try a more customizable generator that would use XSL
templates, but that depends on a modularization and refactoring that would 
make the generator a clear and replaceable component. This is a long-term
plan, of course - some people will kill me if I don't start working on
charsets and encodings )