Herak, Why wouldn't you use something like Velocity for this? Velocity is very well equipped to handle these sorts of tasks and that's exactly what I use for generating "system" emails. Commons email doesn't need any utility for this. The body of an email is (for the most part) simply a string and you can easily generate that using Velocity. If you'd like a copy of a class I wrote (VelocityUtils) which makes it easy to turn a velocity template into a String, let me know. I'll mail it to you directly. It works quite well.
James -----Original Message----- From: Herak Sen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:25 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: [email] Using Templates for Mail Message Hi, A very common method which I use for setting messages is by loading from an external file and replace some tokens with desired values. For e.g. ------------------------------------------------------------------ AUTO-GENERATED MESSAGE FOLLOWS. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, You have been successfully registered. Login Detail login :@LOGIN@ pwd :@PWD@ ----------------------------------------------------------------- After reading this file, I replace @LOGIN@ and @PWD@ with the appropriate values and then send the contents. I was wondering whether such feature could be incorporated in API. There could be a class something like the following public class Template{ private String template; public Template(InputStream in){ template=loadTemplate(in); } public String replaceTokens(Map map){ //Replace all string within @@ return template; } } May be have a more sophisticated implementation for various data sources. Please share your views. Thanks Herak --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals Let fate take it's course directly to your email. See who's waiting for you Yahoo! Personals --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
