Re: [wtp-dev] Support for JSP 2.1 EL in WTP 1.5..

[Raghu Srinivasan <raghunathan.srinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Thanks for the clarification.

The intent of the post was to find out what is being planned in JSP for 
WTP 1.5 so that we can leverage/collaborate. I am in the process of 
defining detailed requirements and will log more specific requests.
-Rgahu

David M Williams wrote:

> Raghu,
>
> In short, no, no plans.
>
> But, let me explain and make some recommendations (for you and others 
> making feature request or
> plan queries).
>
> If you are asking for someone to commit to doing more work, the answer 
> will almost always be no. :)
>
> But, more seriously, we seldom try to set a goal of "meeting such and 
> such a spec level".  I'd like to
> encourage anyone making a similar feature request to me more specific 
> in terms of what a user needs.
> For example, "content assist proposals for the new xyz construct that 
> are new in version abc".
> You know, maybe we won't give a validation error if used incorrectly, 
> but may be syntax highlighting is important?
> Or, is some new runtime capabilities needed? Or .. perhaps some new 
> test effort is needed? Or, perhaps just
> tolerate both #{} and ${} as "EL" but do little else?
>
> So, perhaps you could open a feature request detailing what support 
> you would like, expect, or need for 2.1?
> That is, be sure to provide some motivating message in the bugzilla 
> report  ... is it to enhance a users experience,
> is it required for a certain adopter to ship a product/project on top 
> of WTP, will (or do) errors occur if such
> 2.1 version constructs used? No to mention, be sure to spell out 
> what's wrong with the current support, or
> how it is inadequate for the needs expressed. Or, even, what the 
> alternatives are with current level of
> support (e.g. "have to install 'xyz.jar' by hand, but would be nice to 
> detect and do automatically").
>
> Of course, if you were just asking because if not planned you were 
> volunteering to do the work, well,
> then nevermind me and yes please do!  :)
>
> HTH
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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> Hi,
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> Are there plans to support the JSP 2.1 expression language in the WTP
> 1.5 release? The JSF Tools team is in the process of planning for the
> WTP 1.5 relase and any pointer on this topic would be useful.
>
> Thanks
> Raghu
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