Hi all,
I just came across some of the mails about Tiles2. First, I am very
glad that someone has the time to let Tiles evolve.
But, I am a little bit disappointed about how the proposed Tiles API
evolved.
In some case, I have the feeling that we are going backward :-).
A lot of redundancy in Tiles comes because of the backward
compatibility with the template library. Some new tag names where
proposed because old ones were confusing. In the same time, the old
names were left for backward compatibility.
If I remember well :
* <get> was changed to <insert> - because we mainly say that we want
to insert something
* Attributes "template=" and "component=" were changed to "page=" -
because we specify the page to insert. Tiles is more than a
templating mechanism, and the inserted page is not necessary a
template :-). Maybe we can use "tile=" now that tile is a very
well established name.
* The controllers were added to allows stand alone use of tiles to
be able to do some kind of computation associated to the tiles.
When used with Struts, there is a redundancy (with the use of
actions), but when used alone, the controller mechanism is very
useful to separate view rendering from controller business
It is true that Tiles2 gives us the opportunity to remove all the
redundancies, but we have to take care to not fall again into the
previous mistakes :-)
Once again, that my feeling after reading some of the mails, and maybe I
have missed something in the discussions.
Cedric
Antonio Petrelli wrote:
Re-hi list :-)
I noticed that GetTag extends InsertTag and it does not add anything,
it only sets "isErrorIgnored" flag to true.
So I am thinking on removing one of those.
From my POV it should be better to remove InsertTag (or better, remove
GetTag then rename InsertTag to GetTag), because this way it is clear
that GetTag is the opposite of PutTag.
What do you think?
Ciao
Antonio
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