Open source Tag Library

Question

Hi,
i wish to use the tag library (http://displaytag.sf.net) within a portlet. I have the successfully created this but when i select the Next / Prev links, the table is displayed outside off the portlet.
Has anyone successfully implemented this or any other 3rd party tag library into portlal ?
I cannot use the netui-data:pager or netui-data:grid tags as they only support the datasource javax.sql.RowSet. I need to use java.util.List.
Thanks
Mark

Answer 1

"Mark Gilleece" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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i wish to use the tag library (http://displaytag.sf.net) within a portlet.
I have the
successfully created this but when i select the Next / Prev links, thetable is displayed
outside off the portlet.The problem here is that tag libraries and third party code need to work
with the portal APIs in order to have request parameters, etc prefixed with
portlet instance identifiers. If they don't do this and you used the same
tags in multiple portlets the request parameters would collide.
I cannot use the netui-data:pager or netui-data:grid tags as they onlysupport the datasource javax.sql.RowSet. I need to use java.util.List.
Why not create a simple RowSet implementation around the List and feed that
to the pager and grid tags. Alternatively, use the repeater tag and handle
paging yourself as it is a pretty trivial operation.
Cheers,
Gerald