[opencms-dev] OpenCmsDate - problems reusing taglib tags

[Ruben Malchow]

hello list.

i am running into a somewhat strange problem. ocms is 7.0.5.

i have a field in a schema that is a date. i also have a template that 
displays this date as part of the headline of an article. to format 
this, i have a little jsp tag that takes a pattern and a long value and 
formats tries to format the value according to the pattern. in my 
template, this tag is surrounded by a jstl try/catch thing (so if it 
doesn't work, the result is just an empty string).

now what happens is this: if i call the template with a cotent xml which 
doesn't have the date set yet, it displays as expected, so instead of 
the date, there is an empty string. BUT: it also breaks the editor. 
meaning that when i go back to set the date, the datetime widget is 
gone. until i restart the tomcat.

any ideas? i have no idea where to start looking ... my tag doesn't even 
use any ocms classes, it just instantiates a SimpleDateFormat.

.rm