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Re: JSTL compatibility issue

From: Manfred Riem <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:59:49 -0600

We will be working on the issue. See the bug tracker for more information!

Thanks,
Manfred

On 10/30/2012 10:54 AM, andrei.ivanov_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm evaluating the upgrade of a quite large application from JSF 1.2 to
> JSF 2.x, when I stumbled across a problem I can't find a fix or a
> workaround, described in
> http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-2524.
>
> Basically, the JSTL c:set tag doesn't accept a null or empty string
> anymore.
> Since this was allowed in previous versions and is allowed in the JSP
> JSTL
> (http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.glassfish.web/java
> x.servlet.jsp.jstl/1.2.1/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/common/core/Se
> tSupport.java#158, the else branch), it seems to me that the facelets
> implementation should follow the same behavior to be compatible with
> the others.
>
> Like I said in the beginning, I can't find a workaround for this.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you