Re: Practical JSP Tag Files

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:58:21 -0400

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Eric Jablow wrote:

For a work project, I have written a simple
JSP 2.0 tag file using the JSTL to convert
code like

<hh:label for="name" label="Name"
    accessKey="N" keyClass="akey"
    required="true"/>

to

<label for="name">
  <span class="akey">N</span>ame<em>*</em>
</label>

I find the second one harder to read, and harder
to give a web designer to fill out.

Do any of you know of similar open source tag
files or tag libraries that make common HTML
tasks simpler to perform? I would be willing
to contribute.

Yes, I know hh:label would need to change
if I wanted to support i18n. And I'd be using
CSS to style the class and the em.

Your tag sports a subset of the capabilities of the <h:outputLabel> tag of
Java Server Faces (JSF). a standard part of JEE.

<http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.2/docs/tlddocs/h/outputLabel.html>

Among other things, the JSF tags include the ability to bind to server-side
logic, and can implement AJAX solutions (e.g., following Sun's Java Blueprints).

JSF includes robust support for resource bundles and stylesheets.

--
Lew