Awesome! Should that be:

"WebWork2 contains the following items by default in the
**VelocityContext**"?

Great work Matt!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity in ww2 beta... where/how?
> 
> 
> With regards to the data contained within the ValueStack, I've posted 
> the following up on the wiki under:
> 
> http://wiki.opensymphony.com/space/Using+WebWork+2+Tags+from+Velocity
> 
> cWebWork2 contains the following items by default in the ValueStack:
> 
>      * req - the current HttpServletRequest
>      * res - the current HttpServletResponse
>      * stack - the current OgnlValueStack
>      * ognl - an instance of OgnlTool
>      * ui - a (now deprecated) instance of a ui tag renderer
> 
> Additionally, WebWork uses a customized VelocityContext that allows 
> properties from the value stack to be directly accessed. This 
> means that 
> if you have the following Action:
> 
> public class SampleAction implements Action {
>    ...
> 
> public String getName() { ... }
> public Address getAddress() { ... } }
> 
> You can, from Velocity, access name and address as $name and $address 
> respectively.
> 
> --------
> 
> I'm definitely in agreement on enabling VelocityTools to work 
> with WW2 
> either by default or as a drop-in addon though I haven't had a moment 
> yet to do this.  If you're interested in doing this, I would highly 
> encourage you :)
> 
> M
> 
> Jonas Eriksson wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > First, WebWork2 is looking really promising, great work!
> > 
> > Second, I have not used WebWork1 but tried Struts a year 
> ago and when 
> > I
> > read about WebWork I thought "this is easy, compared to 
> Struts". The 
> > decision fell on WebWork2 and the Velocity view. I feel 
> this combination 
> > is very powerful but where's the documentation... The ww1 
> documentation 
> > serves as a good and basic understanding of how ww2 
> (should/will) work 
> > and then there's the wiki which is good, sometimes ;). What 
> should be 
> > pointed out in some kind of documentation is:
> > 
> > - What is contained in the velocity context after action 
> execution and
> > after direct vm request?
> > 
> > - Which functionality (tags and macros) are carried over 
> from ww1, and
> > which are new? There is a JIRA issue concerning this (with MINOR 
> > priority, should be MAJOR IMO); 
> > http://jira.opensymphony.com/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=WW-251
> > "Velocity view support" without good tags and helper classes is no 
> > Velocity support from a newcomer's point of view.
> > 
> > No more whining... but I would like to know if anyone is 
> interested in
> > using Velocity Tools, mostly the VelocityLayoutServlet, in ww2?
> > I like the idea of using vm templates to build a page layout. Very 
> > simple but still powerful. I have made some ugly changes to 
> ww2 to make 
> > it work with Velocity Tools (not the ToolBox, yet). Is 
> there any chance 
> > at all there will be support for VelocityLayoutServlet (or similiar 
> > 2-pass rendering style) in ww2?
> > 
> > One more thing... is there anything similar to the Velocity Tools
> > ToolBox in ww2? (the ToolBox binds, via xml, 
> instances/values to the 
> > velocity context)
> > 
> > Cheers! :-)
> > 
> > Jonas
> > 
> > 
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