only marginally relevant to this thread, I recently read arguments against using Singletons in web apps: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/OutOfMemory Luca Tarek Nabil wrote: >Thanks a lot Kris for the explanation. > >Actually, I'm starting to feel that moving to JSTL 1.0 was not such a >wise move. There are a lot of things that I used to be able to do with >the Struts tag libraries that I can not do with JSTL. One of them is the >example I mentioned. Currently, the only work around for me is to do >this > ><% >Config config = Config.getIntance(); >%> > >And then use config in later EL expressions. This is exactly what I >don't want to do, but unfortunately, it seems there's no other way >around it. > >I'm starting to feel that JSTL has some severe limitations. Even with >1.1, I ran before into the problem of not being able to use constants. >Someone on this list kindly suggested the non standard tag library, but >the way it works (I guess) is that it uses reflection to expose those >static fields as properties, which is a very artificial solution. I >mean, why isn't this supported by default? I believe this is a question >for the JSR experts to answer. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: taglibs-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: taglibs-user-help@jakarta.apache.org