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Can you recommend a declarative table-generation taglib for JSP (with EL) that is still being maintained? I found a few, such as the Jakarata taglib and Display tag but nothing seems to have been updated in the past year or so.
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
It’s true that Displaytag development seems to be moribund, but I’m using it in an application and other than a couple of minor issues we haven’t had problems. The source is pretty clean and easy to customize/fix if you’re desperate.
The main thing that’s kind-of hard to do with Displaytag is to have a table viewing system that allows for user-driven column ordering. The ordering of columns is determined by the order of the column tags in the Displaytag JSP body, not by the order of columns as delivered in the table data structure by the server-side query action (or whatever generates the table data). It’d be possible to code around that explicitly in JSP, but it’d be quite a mess I suspect.