[Jsptags-discuss] form taglib announcement

[Joseph B. O. <jo...@su...>]

Are you tired of building JSP forms with clunky syntax like:

<input 
  type="text" 
  name="age" 
  value="<jsp:getProperty name="person" property="age" />"
>

I know I am. It annoys me to no end, it's a pain to maintain, and worse -
it looks like Java to many web designers who otherwise aren't afraid of
the <input> tag. That menas *I* - as a programmer - get to play designer,
too, and the smallest changes mean a programming change request.

So I wrote a form taglibrary, largely inspired by the in16 taglibrary
(of which I'm an admin; based on Sourceforge, it aims to be a open source
taglib project. Highly recommended. See the roadmap for it at
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~joeo/roadmap.html.)

Now I can build forms with great ease, including validation if the client
supports javascript:

<form:form action="/servlets/handleUpdate">
	<form:text name="person" property="age" required="true" />
</form:form>

Where can you get this? Glad you asked. See
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~joeo/Form.html for the base
documentation. There are still a few things to do (in fact, proofing this
email showed me one thing missing!) and some of the goals require skills I
don't have, so any contributions or comments would be very helpful.

This code is released under the Artistic License at the moment.

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Joseph B. Ottinger               jo...@cu...
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~joeo      HOMES.COM Developer