jsr341-experts@el-spec.java.net

[jsr341-experts] Re: Stand alone EL API

From: Kin-man Chung <kinman.chung_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:55:22 -0700

On 07/26/11 14:27, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 26/07/2011 19:09, Kin-man Chung wrote:
>
>> One thing I'd like to work on first is the API for stand alone EL. When
>> EL is used outside of a container, there is a need to make it easier to
>> use. I had the pleasure of discussing this with some of you in the past
>> and we've agreed that it is best to have an API for casual users that
>> mostly want to evaulate EL expressions, and another API for handling the
>> EL engine environment. I attempted to put more details into the APIs,
>> which is summarized in the wiki
>> http://java.net/projects/el-spec/pages/ELProcessorAPI.
>>
>> Of course details still need to be worked out. For now please tell me,
>> from the architectural point of view, if we are going in the right
>> direction and have the right level of details.
>>
> That looks like the right direction to me. I can see how I'd go about
> implementing that although there will probably be some issues in the
> detail we can iron out later.
>
> As an aside, I tried to edit the page to fix some typos but my account
> (markt_asf) does not seem to be associated with the el-spec project.
> Could you get that fixed?
>
>
You are now a developer. Let me know if this does not work for you.

Kin-man
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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