Re: Dreamweaver ThirdPartyTags for HTML taglib?

[Martin Duffy <md...@thewiringco.com>]

Bill,

There is a Dreamweaver/Ultradev Taglib Manager that is available. It uses the Live Data feature of Ultradev and the tags are dynamic in the page when you put put them on the page. Struts tagslibs work with it. I have had mixed success with it. Sometimes I get errors.

I have included the original message from Daniel and the link to the
download.


Martin
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Hi ,

Several weeks ago, I sent an email to this list describing an extension for
Dreamweaver UltraDev that allows for the creation of JSPs with custom tag
libraries in UltraDev's development environment. I expressed our intention
to release the extension through jakarta if there was interest. After the
decision was made to donate the code to the taglibs project, Macromedia
released UltraDev 4, incorporating many bug fixes in their SDK. I took
these past couple weeks to  optimize the extension for UltraDev 4 and the
revised SDK, to increase the stability and feature set of the extension. It
is now ready for an initial examination.

As stated in its documentation, the extension is not commercial code to be
used immediately for creating webapps; rather it is part of an
investigation into the current and potential state of tool support for the
authoring of JSPs with custom tag libraries. As a foundation for this
investigation, the extension is intended to have its limitations explored,
and be built upon.

The Custom Tag Library Extension for UltraDev (CTLX) can be downloaded here:
http://www.shokker.com/ctlx/ctlx.zip.

Inside the zip file is the documentation (ctlxmanual.html). The doc
includes detailed information for installing the extension, as well as a
tutorial to guide you through the process of creating a JSP with custom
tags using the extension. For a quick start, I recommend following the
"Installing the Extension" section, and then running the tutorial.

With your consent, I'd like to donate CTLX to the taglibs project.

Dan Mandell
Sun Microsystems
----- Original Message -----
From: <ss...@macromedia.com>
To: <ta...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] adding "tools" directory to taglibs


> I worked for Allaire, now work for Macromedia.  I am an UltraDev newbie,
but
> I've been to the MM Exchange center.  Are these extensions available
there?
>
> Scott Stirling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Jonathan Mandell" <dm...@stanford.edu>
> To: <ta...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 4:55 AM
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] adding "tools" directory to taglibs
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A few weeks ago I submitted CTLX, an extension for authoring JSPs with
> > custom tags in UltraDev, to the taglibs project. One of the issues with
> > commiting any utility or tool for tag libraries to the project is that
> > since the tool itself is not a tag library, it is difficult to provide
> > the source in a structure that is useful but also complies with the
> > Jakarta directory structure. CTLX for example, consists of a servlet,
> > 6 JavaScript files installed via Macromedia's "Extension Manager", and a
> > tutorial webapp. The servlet and webapp could be picked up by a
build.xml
> > file, but the actual extension files require the use of the Macromedia
> > "Extension Manager" to be built and installed.
> >
> > Since tool support seems to be an area of growing interest among tag
> > library users, I'd like to suggest we add a "tools" directory to the
> > repository, and within that directory we could have an "UltraDev"
> > directory for something like CTLX, and a GoLive directory when someone
> > creates a similar tool for GoLive, etc. If there is any issue with this,
> > please let me know.
> >
> > Dan
> >

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Bunting 
  To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:05 PM
  Subject: Dreamweaver ThirdPartyTags for HTML taglib?



  Has anyone built ThirdPartyTags (xml) for Dreamweaver (UltraDev) for the struts JSP taglibs -- specifically the HTML taglib?  

  [Without a custom third party tags for struts, you can not visualize how the screens will look in Dreamweaver.  So, without a good visual HTML editor, then graphic artists / web designers ("non programmer" web designers) will have a hard time working on improving the appearance and layout of the screens and thus defeats some of the major advantages of JSP programming.  Your suggestions appreciated!]

  I will start developing the configuration file to help visualize the Struts HTML taglib.  Please let me know if you are interested in a copy of the file.

  Thanks!
  -Bill.



  Bill Bunting
  Rievent Technologies
  email: wbunting@rievent.com
  Web:  http://www.rievent.com
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