--- 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 it's only normally for very simple things.
>
> The main times i use scriptlets are for stupidly simple things that
> appear
> to have been overlooked with el/jstl:
>
> <% pageContext.setAttribute("linefeed", "\n"); %>
>
> Because you cant use \n in el for search and replace strings.
>
> Other use is for copying static final variables to the page context
> (how no
> one spotted this before el was finalised i will never know? or am i
> missing
> somthing?)
hehe, yea the lack of easy way to access static final variables using
Struts/JSTL is what brought me to this state, lol.
something so easy in scriptlets but needs quite a bit of coding to do
in non-scriptlet form by comparison.
>
> Daniel.
>
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