Standard: An Implementation of the JSP™ Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

Version: 1.0.1
Release Notes

The Standard 1.0.1 release builds on the Standard 1.0 FCS release, an implementation of the final JSTL 1.0 Specification. The Standard 1.0.1 release includes many bug fixes and updates

The Standard 1.0.1 release, which is hosted at Apache, is used as the source repository for the JSTL 1.0 reference implementation supplied by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Release History

Bug Id	Summary
11204	The fmt tags used to store the BodyContent from one tag in the same field variable they use for value. This caused problems in a container that supported tag re-use since the old BodyContent was used.
11293	The xml:transform tag can now be used with a series of imported stylesheets.

Bug Id	Summary
8723	Fixed 'xslt' attribute for <x:transform> to only accept an object exported by <x:parse> if it's a String, Reader, or javax.xml.transform.Source.
9257	Added "UNICODE_INPUT = true" to the ELParser.jj options so that non-ascii values can be parsed.
9528	GettingStarted.html guide updated to include all jar dependency information.
9581	SQL examples updated to allow for the inputting of dataSource username and password.
9968	c:url tag no longer prepends path to page relative URLs.
10175	Added a <welcome-file-list> element to the example application's deployment descriptor. Modified standard-doc in a corresponding fashion.
10334	BundleSupport modified to use the current context classloader instead of the classloader that loaded it. This change was necessary in order for BundleSupport to properly find resources in a web application. The SQL DataSourceWrapper also modified to properly use classloader delegation to load resources.
10856	Fixed incorrect x:param error message.

Other changes and additions:

• Improved x:parse action's EntityResolver to work with JAXP 1.2. URI's normalized so they can be processed consistently.
• The JSTL 1.0 Specification has all the official functional descriptions; out of date documentation removed.
• Hard-coded and browser-based locales separated into distinct pages in order to avoid conflicting response encodings.
• Formatting web application examples updated to use EL to access request parameters.
• query and update tags modified to catch a more generic JDBC driver implementation generated exception when it occurs and provide a meaningful error message.
• DateParam tag modified to have an empty body content as defined by the spec.
• PreparedStatement.setNull(parameterIndex, java.sql.Types.NULL) now used when specifying null parameter values.
• XPath performance improved by caching parsed representations of XPath expressions.
• Support for relative system ID's in <x:transform> simplified.
• Improved TimeZoneSupport javadocs
• Added Japanese resources
• Added support for JSP 2.0 functionality in the JSTL EL. By default, none of the new features are enabled in order to comply with the JSTL 1.0 Specification. The functionality will be triggered by a particular way of calling the interpreter.
  • Created new new "jsp20" parser directory.
  • Added new "jsp20el" build target for JSP 2.0 specific features.
  • Added copy of *.properties to JSP 2.0 EL jar.