Re: looping on a list of lists (or accessing custom attributes of a list)

Martin Cooper wrote:

>
>
> Hmm... ;-)
>
> Two suggestions:
>
> 1) Instead of extending ArrayList, just encapsulate it. In other 
> words, add
> a property to LinkWithIconList for the list, so that you can access 
> the list
> explicitly using ${sub_list.list} or something. This seems like the 
> simplest
> approach.

yeah, this is what I ended up doing. It works, thanks. I was just 
wondering if I was missing something.

>
> 2) The Unstandard taglib in the Taglibs sandbox has an 'instanceOf' 
> tag that
> might be useful to you.

this crossed my mind too, but I was a bit worried about the performance 
of "instanceOf" in Java.
I know that premature optimization is the root of all evil, but this app 
I am working on must deal with a lot of list manipulation....

thank you, Martin.

Luca