On 5/1/02 11:41 AM, "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> >>
>> On 5/1/02 12:28 AM, "John McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Well I would not be bothered if tomcat had developed a build system that
>>> it packaged as an independent entity with the idea that it might be more
>>> generally useful. Tomcat is a large project and they certainly could
>>> have had the itch. And if they promoted it occasionally what's the big
>>> deal.
>>
>> <joke>
>> If you have ever built tomcat from source, you might wish they had a build
>> system...
>> </joke>
>>
>> That used to be true - I don't know if it is anymore.
>
> Actually, Tomcat *does* include a nice little build system for web apps --
> in the Application Developer's Guide. Among other things, it sets up your
> compile class path to include everything Tomcat has in its shared
> repositories (common/lib and so on) for you. In the HEAD branch, and in
> the 4.1.0 test release, it even includes custom Ant tasks that interact
> with the Manager webapp to install, reload, and uninstall apps
> dynamically.
>
> The difference is that we don't badger people into using it -- their
> choice. :-)
No, I meant for tomcat proper. A while ago, it was a bear to build entirely
from source...
I did it once, proved I could do it, and then happily fetched the binaries
since :)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Struts is adding support for
>>>>> Velocity even though one of its primary reasons for being proposed with
>>>>> Turbine already existing was to limit the view to jsp exclusively.
>>>>
>>>> I think you are mistaken - we are building a toolkit to use Velocity as the
>>>> view layer in Struts.... Struts isn't adding any support AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Okay, I guess I could argue that developing a taglib (or something more
>>> elaborate) is outside the scope of a project around a template engine.
>>
>> We have one of those too. :) Lets you do wacky things like
>>
>> <jsp:useBean id="mybean" class="GeirBean" />
>>
>> <body>
>> <vel:velocity strictaccess="true">
>>
>> #set($mybean = $scopetool.getPageScope("mybean"))
>>
>> #if(true)
>> this is true!
>> #end
>>
>> <br>
>>
>> $mybean.string
>>
>> <br>
>>
>> #foreach($item in $mybean.array)
>> $item <br>
>> #end
>>
>> </vel:velocity>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>
> Hey Geir, I though there weren't any scriptlets in Velocity? :-)
:)
That's a JSP page. And maybe the right term is "Velocilets" or something.
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