Just off the top of my head... Doesn't FreeMarker have a macro language similar to Velocity? I believe you could write custom functions to access the ValueStack.
I was actually thinking about doing the FreeMarker integration just last week. Once I get some spare time I might look into this. Regards, Kirk Rasmussen Lucasfilm Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: James Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Freemarker WAS Using SiteMesh for > the UI tags > > > The one thing that may prevent FreeMarker from being "drop-in" > replacement for the WebWork JSP is the expression language > supported by > the WebWork taglibs. It also affects JSTL integration and Velocity > integration. It concerns the hierarchical nature of the ValueStack. > Most of these third-party view technologies don't understand the > concept of '../name'. We use WebWork/Velocity on a huge project and > have never had any need for this syntax, but some WebWork > developers (I > guess) use the hierarchical ValueStack quite often. > > Since you "own" the FreeMarker syntax and can modify it, perhaps you > may want to include such constructs. > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote: > > > Actually if I understand it right, the integration is quite > trivial. > > We have > > a Model2-compliant view servlet bundled into the core > distribution. It > > lets > > templates access request, session, and servlet context > attributes. It > > also > > lets templates use any JSP taglib present in the webapp. > Therefore it > > is > > pretty much a drop-in replacement for JSP as far as WebWork is > > concerned. Is > > there anything else codewise that should be done for > integration? (My > > feeling is that there isn't, but please correct me if there are some > > gotchas). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
