Re: JSTL/Standard not really JSP 1.1?

[Lawrence You <yo...@pixo.com>]

Thanks Stu, your email helps clarify the situation for me. I won't be 
able to volunteer do the work to get JSTL back into 1.1 now although 
I did tweak a few tags in JSTL to see if it work with 1.1 just to ask 
"what if...?" At least it sounds like backporting is a possibility 
though.

As for my original comment, I noticed that "Standard" is now no 
longer listed under "JSP 1.1" on the Taglibs page which is probably 
the way it should be.

-Lawrence

At 12:54 PM -0700 5/16/02, stuart robertson wrote:
>Back in November(?) I modified EA1 to work with JSP
>1.1 to use in a "proof of concept" app.  The main
>incompatibilities I remember offhand were the lack of
>the new IteratorTag and TryCatchFinally(?) interfaces.
>  The expression language had no depencies on JSP 1.2.
>Changing the JSTL taglibs to work with 1.1 wasn't
>difficult.  What was ugly though was that it required
>changes to the base classes.  The iterator-support
>JSTL classes are a good example.  I ended up changing
>their packages to make it obvious that these aren't
>the standard distribution classes.  Any tags built on
>top of this 1.1-ized JSTL used these modified classes,
>and would themselves have to be later modified to work
>again with the standard tags.  Yuck.
>
>...in short, I can see why working group didn't want
>to do this!  But I doubt I'm the only one who wants to
>use JSTL functionality and simply doesn't have the
>option of using a JSP 1.2 container just yet.  There's
>benefit to using these temporary ports, since the TLDs
>can remain the same, and you can build JSPs that will
>work fine under JSP 1.2 (at least that was my
>experience).  Its just a stop-gap measure, but one
>that could get JSTL into projects earlier than would
>otherwise be an option.
>
>If anybody were to place a 1.1-ified JSTL port under
>sourceforge, I'm sure it would get used.
>
>Stu
>
>>At 02:56 PM 4/25/2002, Lawrence You wrote:
>>>I think this is more of a labeling issue on the
>taglibs page than anything
>>>else but I'm wondering if there's a way I can get
>the Standard Taglib to
>>>work with JSP 1.1.
>
>>I believe at least some of the JSTL tags require
>>features only available in
>>JSP 1.2, but I don't know the specifics.
>>
>  >[...snip...]


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