Re: Discussion Initiation: Incorporation of custom tag librariesinto authoring tools.

[Glenn Nielsen <gl...@voyager.apg.more.net>]

"|>an //andell" wrote:
> 
> 
> This summer, I wrote an extension for Dreamweaver UltraDev that allows a
> user to author JSP pages with tag libraries without any handcoding. There
> are two components: 1) The extension files for UltraDev and 2) A TLD
> parsing servlet that provides information to the extension files about the
> tag libraries. The extension provides the user with a list of available tag
> libraries, and allows her to insert the custom tags into the page, as if
> they were adding a <b> tag or an <a href> tag. The extension also provides
> a Custom Tag Property Inspector that allows users to set the tag's
> parameters without tinkering with the html source. I demo-ed this extension
> at Apachecon Europe this fall, and I mentioned there that if there was
> sufficient interest, we would make this code public. Our intention is to
> release this code within the next couple of weeks, either through
> jakarta-taglibs or some other medium.
> 

This is great news!

+1 for incorporating the UltraDev JSP 1.1 tag library editor extension
into Jakarta.

Glenn

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