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[Springframework-developer] jsp form simplification macros

[Keith D. <ke...@in...>]

Hey guys,

 

What's the status for the jsp form simplification macros for 1.2?  I get
asked about them all the time, people want them and most sites already have
reinventing their own custom tags for exactly this.  Also, why are they only
usable under JSP 2.0?

 

Thanks!

 

Keith

Re: [Springframework-developer] jsp form simplification macros

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Keith Donald wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> What’s the status for the jsp form simplification macros for 1.2? I 
> get asked about them all the time, people want them and most sites 
> already have reinventing their own custom tags for exactly this. Also, 
> why are they only usable under JSP 2.0?
>
> Thanks!
>
According to the entry in Jira, looks like Spring 1.3RC1 is the aimed 
for release for inclusion of the tags:
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-310
This is partially based around somebody from Xebia contributing some 
time on polishing them, and making equivalents for JSP 1.2 as normal 
taglibs.

The dependency on JSP 2.0 comes from the fact that they are implemented 
as JSP 2.0 .tag files. Essentially the tag implementation itself is a 
JSP page. This is nice becaue people can customize the HTML that's 
generated very easily.



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