On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Aaron <aarondh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So far I'm impressed with Lift and have gone through the toy-app stage > of experimenting. I have my own framework in production powering large > scale sites like http://www.comcast.net and real experience with > Django. > > I'm a little sketchy on the thinking behind this type of display logic > deep in the code. For example > > Snippet: > class HelloWorld { > def howdy: NodeSeq = <span>Welcome to helloworld at {new > java.util.Date}</span> > } > > In Model: > override def loginXhtml = > <lift:surround with="default" at="content"> > { super.loginXhtml } > </lift:surround> > > In real applications are people delegating this type of rendering to > template files? In a freemarker world I have template macros > (snippets) that would look like > <#macro helloWord> > <span>Welcome to helloworld at ${exec.RunCustomDateFunction} > </#macro> > > or server code that would look like > (In horrible python/java psudocode) > function(){ > render_and_return(template('helloWorld', {date: new > java.util.Date} ) > } > > > I have strict rules about who gets to edit templates and who gets to > edit server code. Template code should NEVER affect server profiles > (of course it can with bad javascript/ajax) and server code should > never have display data. > > (In my world...) Display / presentation changes should NOT require > a .war deployment > > I'm basically asking for other people's thoughts in this direction. I > have multiple HTML/CSS/JS experts and multiple Server devs. Is this > something that will 'people scale' in the way I need it to? > > > We currently have Groovy embedded in places and were looking at > Grails. The problem is that it is groovy is not as fast to code in as > Ruby and Grails is not much easier to deploy then a .war (because we > have automation). Lift solves some real problems for us and Scala > seems like a language with real benefits. > > Besides SpringSource is offering Grails support so we don't want to be > too mainstream ;) >
Love the attitude! > > Thanks, > -Aaron > http://www.aaronheld.com > > > > -- Viktor Klang Senior Systems Analyst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
