Right. I don't understand what this could possibly be useful for. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Simon Lessard <Simon_Lessard(a)dmr.ca&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > Although I guess it would be technically possible (yet weird and > most likely very complicated) to support EL for the var attribute, > it wouldn't make much sense as 'var' is used as a variable name for > iteration purpose. In much senses, it's like a really short lived > managed bean and we don't support dynamic managed bean names > either. I wonder how the EL would have to look like to support such > feature (scope[myBean.varName].attribute?) and what kinf od use > case it would solve. > > > Regards, > > ~ Simon > > ________________________________ > > From: JSR 314 Open Mailing list on behalf of Ed Burns > Sent: Fri 3/6/2009 10:55 AM > To: JSR-314-OPEN(a)JCP.ORG > Subject: Why do we disallow EL for h:dataTable "var" attribute? > > > > Someone on JSR-314-COMMENTS asked this question and I don't recall > the > answer, but I trust there's a good one since it's baked into the > spec. > > Any ideas? > > Ed > -- > | ed.burns(a)sun.com | office: 408 884 9519 OR x31640 > | homepage: | http://ridingthecrest.com/ > -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org