On Friday 08 Apr 2011 15:36:23 Robert Hailey wrote:
>
> On 2011/04/06 (Apr), at 4:16 AM, Pouyan Zachar wrote:
>
> > [freenet.10.technomation]
> >> Struts is a large, complex and largely superseded framework (by
> >> JBoss, Spring etc) - the .jar is several megs in size, requiring
> >> considerable configuration. Given the amount of HTML in Freenet,
> >> then one would think a lightweight templating engine might be more
> >> in order: Apache Velocity for example. [ http://
> >> velocity.apache.org/ ]
> >>
> >> Velocity is ~300K, easy to configure and could run in a single
> >> servlet. Content could be kept in HTML and other content files that
> >> could be designed / built / tested outside of the container in
> >> regular tools.
> >
> > I must agree with the fact that Struts and similar frameworks (Wicket)
> > are too huge to be delivered with Freenet.
>
> I have seen struts in action... DON'T DO IT! :)
>
> IMO it would be *alot* of work to port, for a negative benefit (it
> would be bigger, slower to start, slower to run, harder to maintain...).
>
> I (for one) like the HTMLNode mechanism, even if it is a bit
> 'different' it is a more methodical way of making a web page; and you
> never have to worry about closing your tags. It's even theoretically
> possible to build the page with multiple threads.
>
> Surely there is a better way to make it more readable or support
> javascript better (if that is the issue).
>
> HTMLTable table = new HTMLTable();
>
> table.tr();
> table.th("Peer Nodes");
> table.tr();
> table.td(new PeerCicle(data));
>
> page.add(table);
>
> ???
>
> node.code("<b>insert raw html here</b>");Bombe's lightweight templating code is quite interesting too. It's actually faster than our current code, but it'd be a fair bit of work to port it. We should discuss this some more. I think Ian has some experience in these things?
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