Hi, Should I use struts-el with jstl or struts built-in tag libraries ? What are the differences between these?
-- Regards, M. Onur Tokan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David G. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Satish Talim" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 10:23 AM > Subject: RE: Struts and EL/JSTL > > Satish, > > JBoss v4.0 says it (like Tomcat 5.X.X) supports JSP 2.0. So you can use the > standard Struts release and simply type in the ${expression} syntax from JSP > v2.0 directly into a struts tag or anywhere in the JSP page itself. Do > ${abc.xyz} to call the getXyz method of object abc. Scopes should be > searched automatically in order as mentioned in previous posts today (or > yesterday) on JSP 2.0. For IF statements, you can do ${ true ? "right" : > "wrong" } where this prints out the word "right" while it could be a method > call to retrieve data to display instead of the string "right" or the string > "wrong". That makes a Standard struts tag like: > > <html:text property="address" /> > > work the same as: > > <input type="text" name="address" value="${someFormBeanName.address}" /> > > One trick: In Tomcat 5.X.X, (I don't know about JBoss 4.0) if you don't > configure a line in your WEB-INF/web.xml, JSP 2.0 syntax won't work unless > you add this to the top of your JSP (Note: this trick was posted to the list > within the last 24 hours): > > <%@ page isELIgnored="false" %> > > That trick was posted today. I just tried it with "true" and "false" and was > amazed. I suppose you'd use it with "true" if you had globally set JSP 2.0 > on for your webapp but choose to selectively turn it off in particular JSPs > for some security reason. I just tried it and it's freaky/cool. :) > > For an interesting JSP 2.0 reference card, try Sun at: > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/2.0/card20.pdf > > I hope this information helps. > > Regards, > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Satish Talim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Struts and EL/JSTL > > Hello, > > I am using JBoss 4.0 and Struts 1.2.4. I am interested in using EL/JSTL > along with Struts. However, I came across this comments by Karr, David (the > person who wrote the Struts-EL library) "Struts-el is intended to be used in > a JSP 1.2 container. It is not used in a JSP 2.0 container. I feel that > Struts-EL will certainly NOT become part of the core Struts tag library, as > there's no point to it." > Therefore, a simple question is do we use the tag libraries as declared in > struts-html-el.tld or c.tld etc? If not, how do we use something like <c:out > value="${abc.xyz}" /> > It's very confusing. > > Regards, > > Satish Talim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]