[Opensource] why aren't ControllerElements exposed as beans to jsps?

[Michael Rimov]

At 09:35 PM 2/6/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>For a while I've been wondering why blocks, inputs, outputs, and 
>transitions are not exposed as beans to jsp's. Maybe I'm missing 
>something, but it seems to me that if they were, all of the custom struts 
>integration wouldn't be necessary. Also, we could seamlessly make use of 
>other tag libraries (Struts Layout is one that I'd love to use) without 
>modification.
>
>My understanding is that this would simply require looping on all 
>ControllerElements, placing them in the request.


Hi Mike,

As of 5.0.3, I did expose things through Maps that should allow better 
integration with JSTL in particular, but I bet it could work with the 
struts tags too.  I don't want to iterate through the ControllerResponse 
every time, but allowing decent navigation would be excellant, especially 
since the entire ControllerResponse object could easily be a bean in 
itself. [Although technically, with the new additions, it's probably 
'loosely' already a bean]

                                                 -Mike