Return-Path: <stavares@home.com>
Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Received: (qmail 3400 invoked from network); 14 Oct 1999 22:46:23 -0000
Received: from ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com (HELO mail.rdc1.ct.home.com)
 (imail@24.2.0.66)
  by apache.org with SMTP; 14 Oct 1999 22:46:23 -0000
Received: from littlefoot ([24.0.243.24]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com
          (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with SMTP
          id <19991015002841.ZBPV3646.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@littlefoot>
          for <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org>;
          Thu, 14 Oct 1999 17:28:41 -0700
Message-ID: <019401bf1695$f13b5980$0200a8c0@littlefoot>
From: "Scott Tavares" <stavares@home.com>
To: <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
References: 
 <c=US%a=_%p=PostLinear_Enter%l=CINCPAC-991014212929Z-27913@cincpac.postlinear.com>
 <38064CAF.ECAE4297@eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: some cool hacking projects...
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:46:23 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300

Maybe the prudent thing to do is to protest sun to get this put into the
next version of the Jsp spec. if it does not already exist.

-ScottTavares-

----- Original Message -----
From: Anil K. Vijendran <akv@eng.sun.com>
To: <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: some cool hacking projects...


> About the only requirement I would insist on is we do stuff that is
> standard. That way we don't "lock" people into proprietary features; if
that
> happen we all lose.
>
> How does this compare with the jsp:forward or jsp:include actions?
>
> Talin wrote:
>
> > One thing we've added to the JSP code which was a major win for us was a
> > component-based system, that allows JSP pages to call other JSP pages as
> > subroutines. The syntax is similar to Mason (see http://www.masonhq.com
> > for a very nice Perl-based component system). The components have their
> > own componentRoot property (for security reasons, we don't want
> > components to be within the document root), and can take arbitrary
> > parameters, like this:
> >
> >         <& "Head.cm" "first-argument", "second-argument" &>
> >
<snip>