Portlet MVC and taglibs

[jkario]

We are doing portlet development using the Spring Portlet MVC. Spring 2.0 ships with spring-form.tld for handling the html forms. However, the spring portlet example application (http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/spring/display/JSR168/Home) has chosen to use JSP 2.0 tag files and implement it's own tags for form handling. Which is the preferred way?

[johnalewis]

Using the spring-form tag library is preferred. The spring-portlet-sample app was initially built before that tag library was available, which is why it includes tagfiles that largely do the same thing.

I am actually in the process right now of updating the sample app to use the spring-form taglib. I'll be posting the new version as soon as Acegi starts releasing 2.0 milestone builds because I want to include some of the Acegi Portlet support in the example.

[Jörg Heinicke]

I'll be posting the new version as soon as Acegi starts releasing 2.0 milestone builds because I want to include some of the Acegi Portlet support in the example.

That would be cool! Can you please announce it somewhere as soon as it is available?

Joerg

[johnalewis]

Yep, I'll be sure to announce it here in the forums, on the mailing list, and on the Spring Portlet MVC wiki space.