Subj : Re: Using Rhino from JSP or like JSP
To : Igor Bukanov
From : McKinley, Richard
Date : Fri Aug 13 2004 02:18 pm
Yes, your way is better. How soon until the 1.6R1 release? I'd like to
get the taglib accepted before the deadline. After that I'll start work
on a JavaScript app server using Rhino and servlet.jar :)
-McKinley
Igor Bukanov wrote:
> McKinley, Richard wrote:
>
>> Igor Bukanov wrote:
>>
>>>> If I can create something nice would you want a JSP taglib for Rhino
>>>> submitted?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> YES!
>>>
>>> Regards, Igor
>>
>>
>>
>> I am designing the JSP taglib tag names and their required attributes.
>> The tags will be 'script', 'expression' (with the aliases of 'express'
>> for those who think in verb sense and 'ex' because it should be short)
>> and 'write' with a short alias of 'out'. 'script' will be for
>> multi-line body evaluation and 'expression' for a single expression.
>>
>> The url for the taglib will look like this:
>> <%@ taglib uri="http://javascript.mozilla.org/tools/taglib"
>> prefix="rhino"%>
>>
>> As you can see the user is in control of what prefix they choose. So
>> they can think of Rhino in whatever sense they choose. 'prefix' could
>> be set to "javascript", "JScript", "js", "e4x" or anything else. That
>> way the vocabulary can fit their personal terminology.
>>
>> An example:
>>
>>
>> var userName = request.getParameter("user-name");
>>
>>
>>
>> I see your name is userName!
>> if(userName != "Bob") {
>> Say "Hi" to Bob if you see him.
>> } else {
>> Bob, it is nice to see you again.
>> }
>>
>> Any questions or suggestions are welcome. What do you think of
>> individual tags for 'if', 'do-while', 'while', 'for-in', 'continue',
>> 'break', 'with', 'switch', 'throw' and 'try'?
>
>
> IMO it is better not to do that since E4X would allow to write the above
> as:
>
>
> var userName = request.getParameter("user-name");
>
>
>
>
> OUT(I see your name is {userName}!
)
> if(userName != "Bob") {
> OUT(Say "Hi" to Bob if you see him.
)
> } else {
> OUT(Bob, it is nice to see you again.
)
> }
>
>
> where OUT does proper job of appending string to response.
>
> Regards, Igor
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