[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=comments#action_12385098 ] Max Andersen commented on JBIDE-1203: ------------------------------------- googling a bit on it gives me: "JSP 2.0 also added an important feature to the EL specification: EL functions, which allow page authors to invoke static methods in Java classes from EL expressions. Additionally, JSP 2.0 allows programmatic access and customization of the EL evaluator through a set of standard interfaces and abstract classes." So I guess this is legal. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=all ] Max Andersen updated JBIDE-1203: -------------------------------- Assignee: Victor Rubezhny (was: Max Andersen) Ok - I took a look at JSP 2 spec which describes the unified EL and found the following: value-a.value-b <first part is about if value-a is a map etc.> Otherwise (a JavaBeans object), coerce value-b to String If value-b is a readable property of value-a, as per the JavaBeans specification: • If getter throws an exception: error • Otherwise: return result of getter call Otherwise: error. So for . static methods are not available (since its not part of a javabean IMO) The only way I could find static methods being availbe are through the EL functions with the : operator. ns:func(arg1,arg2,...) where ns is the namespace notion from taglibs. So I don't think static methods should/can be invoked in this context - at least not per the spec. We should remove those from the list of completions. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=comments#action_12385608 ] Victor Rubezhny commented on JBIDE-1203: ---------------------------------------- in the document http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.3.0.ALPHA/reference/en/html/elenhancements.html I see that functions can be used in Seam EL... For example: <h:commandButton action="#{hotelBooking.bookHotel(hotel)}" value="Book Hotel"/> if so, the "instance()" in the actor variable is public static method. Why it shoudn't be shown in CA? Is it wrong to allow the content assistant to show the "instance" method with no parenthesis? It was previously added by Alex for the actions: each method is doubled in CA - with parenthesis and with no parenthesis - to simplify it usage in action. This is also because we don't know on how to determine which methods are allowed to be used as action. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=comments#action_12385630 ] Gavin King commented on JBIDE-1203: ----------------------------------- My understanding is that EL does not support static methods. But even if it did, we still would not want to autocomplete them. There is never (that I can think of) a good reason to call a static method on an *instance*. It's just confusing clutter to show it in the autocompletion. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=all ] Max Andersen updated JBIDE-1203: -------------------------------- Priority: Critical (was: Major) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=all ] Victor Rubezhny resolved JBIDE-1203. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Done -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=all ] Victor Rubezhny reopened JBIDE-1203: ------------------------------------ -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=all ] Victor Rubezhny resolved JBIDE-1203. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Done -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira