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On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 20:37 -0500, Paul D. Bain wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> I am curious. Does anyone use the validator component of Jakarta commons with OpenCMS? See <A HREF="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/validator/%A0%A0">http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/validator/ </A> Do many OpenCMS developers use _any_ of the components from Jakarta commons? How many use _any_ such re-usable components?</FONT><BR>
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We try to use as many as possible, and not only from Jakarta, but also from OpenSymphony and others (JGroups, JCIFS, Hibernate, ...)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> I would also like to know how many OpenCMS developers have abandoned Struts in favor of the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), which renders obsolete at least two of the tag collections within Struts.</FONT><BR>
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We use the struts-el variant included in the contrib section of the struts package. It allows you to use EL constructs within Struts tags.<BR>
Anyway, Struts is primarily a Controller, so I don't see how it would be rendered obsolete by JSTL, apart from its View part.<BR>
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Tristan<BR>
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