hey kin-man, that sounds great! I was actually thinking along those lines a while back, but thought it was impracticle because the project I was working one didn't have enough time to explore that approach. when I was doing performance analysis of jasper1 with jslt and saw how bad the performance was (due to the nested try/catch bug), I went through and manually wrote scriplet code to do the same exact logic. The performance compared to jasper1 + jstl was tremendous. I had full mockups of a 3 pages written in JSTL and pure scriplet. If memory serves me correctly, the difference was 5-8x. the JSTL version using jasper1 would take 900-1000ms+ to display 15 results. The same exact page using scriplet took about 100-150ms. I would definitely be interested in spending time on this and assisting. I may have some time opening up next year, so I hope to start contributing actively :) cross my fingers. peter lin Kin-Man Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I am designing a framework in Jasper for enabling plugins that work closely with Jasper to generate Java codes instead of calls to tag handlers. The main idea is to take take JSTL tags, such as
${i} and generates the Java codes for (int i = 0; i <= 100; i++) { pageContext.setAttribute("i", String.valueOf(i)); out.print(evaluate("${i}")); } or even for (int i = 0; i <= 100; i++) { out.print(i); } The design is not to do the actual optimization in Jasper, but to provide a framework for taglib writers to develop plugins to Jasper that will do the actual optimization. Eventually, Jasper will be bundled with 1 or 2 plugins for JSTL, as test cases for the framework and as examples for writing the plugins. The plugins are specified in a xml file: the name of the tag class the name of the pkugin class There are currently 3 interfaces: TagPluginFactory Used for creating a TagPlugin. TagPlugin Created at code generation time for a specific tag invokation. Used by Jasper to generate java codes. TagPlugContext Created by Japser and used by the plugin to query properties of the current tag, and to use resources in Jasper. This work is at the very early stage of the design, and is purely experimental. I'll be checking in sources for this work, and they should not affect the other part of Jasper, when plugins are not turned on. I welcome comments and suggestions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now