Miscellaneous doubts

[Harshit Patel]

1. in c:forEach tag, can "begin" attribute be greater than "end" attribute, and "step" be -ve, so that the loop can count backwards?

2. when we use "tagdir" attribute in the taglib directive, it just points to the directory where the tag file is kept; however, how does the container know which tag file in the directory to select, since there might be more than 1 tag file in the directory?

[Christophe Verré]

1. If end is specified and it is less than begin, the loop is simply not executed. step must be >= 1

[Christophe Verré]

2. When using the "tagdir" attribute, every tag will be read, and the filename will become the name of the tag.
For example : two files : mytag.tag, hello.tag

<%@ taglib tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" prefix="tag" %>

<tag:mytag/>
<tag:hello/>
[ March 06, 2007: Message edited by: Satou kurinosuke ]

[Rishi Chopra]

1. For the answer to your first question if "begin" is greater than "end" then the loop is simply not executed.NO ERROR

"step" must be greater than or equal to 1 else ERROR

2. The Tag File is choosen by the name of tag you use.
for e.g

if you have a Tag File Named NavBar.tag and Header.tag in WEB-INF/tags folder then
in jsp when you define

<%@ taglib tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" prefix="mine" %>

<mine:Header> ----> this will invoke your Header.tag file
<mine:NavBar> ----> this will invoke your NavBar.tag file

Also remember you can name your tag file with extension as either .tag or .tagx

Hope i cleared all your doubts

Regards
Rishi Chopra

[Harshit Patel]

One more: in a JSP, can we change the references for the implicit objects, or are they marked as final? e.g. can we do this:

out = null;
[ March 06, 2007: Message edited by: H Pathak ]