Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP?

2002-12-09 Thread Rickard Öberg
Rickard Öberg wrote: Not with the same transparent syntax, since the Velocity templates use the Velocity language. I.e. if you'd want to use the WW EL then you'd have to delegate to WW explicitly, e.g. $stack.findValue("foo"). I personally use WW and Velocity almost exclusively, for three reaso

Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP?

2002-12-09 Thread Rickard Öberg
Aslak Hellesøy wrote: I'm about to start a new project, and we have decided to use WebWork. I'd like to hear what kind of view technology the WebWork users/developers recommend. I'm hesitating between Velocity and JSP. I prefer Velocity over JSP because it's quicker to use for development (no nee

Re: [OS-webwork] ServletDispatcher

2002-12-09 Thread Rickard Öberg
boxed wrote: I have written a custom directory browsing view with webwork, and it works fine now, but I discovered a rather annoying thing in webwork in the proccess: ServletDispatchers getActionName() method is private. This forced me to copy paste the entire code of this class into my directory

Re: [OS-webwork] Documentation

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
Toby, Great stuff - I've added a link to it from the WebWork page on the wiki - thanks! Cheers, Mike On 10/12/02 2:40 PM, "Toby Hede" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) penned the words: > Hi, > > I have been planning some documentation stuff as well, I started with a > dummies guide: > > http://info-archit

Re: [OS-webwork] Documentation

2002-12-09 Thread Toby Hede
Hi, I have been planning some documentation stuff as well, I started with a dummies guide: http://info-architects.net/webwork/fundamentals-dummies.html And I need to get working on some other areas as well. Toby > Ken, > > Agreed - we greatfully appreciate any improvements to the documentati

Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP?

2002-12-09 Thread Erik Beeson
After 1.3, I plan to move the taglib code out of the taglibs into a general helper package that the taglib will extend. In this way, adapting to a new view would simply be a matter of writing the bridge from the view to the helpers. Thoughts? --Erik On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote

Re: [OS-webwork] Documentation

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
Ken, Agreed - we greatfully appreciate any improvements to the documentation! Perhaps the best way you (or anyone - it's really easy!) can help out is just to start documenting things on the Wiki (http://www.opensymphony.com:8668). Anyone can sign up and write some extra pages of information. Th

Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP?

2002-12-09 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
Aslak, Having just written a book chapter on WebWork views, I'm quite au fait with this situation! :) The JSP views _are_ more advanced at the moment, but that's only because none of the core developers has any Velocity projects or much Velocity experience. There is no reason (from looking at Vel

RE: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP?

2002-12-09 Thread Aapo Laakkonen
> I'm about to start a new project, and we have decided > to use WebWork. I'd like to hear what kind of view > technology the WebWork users/developers recommend. Good choice! I have used Velocity, but support for JSP is a way above from what WebWork gives to Velocity users. I have since switched t

Re: [OS-webwork] Documentation

2002-12-09 Thread Wayland Chan
Welcome to the project and kudos on a very well written introduction of yourself. Looking *very* forward to your contributions. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ---

[OS-webwork] Documentation

2002-12-09 Thread Ken Egervari [eXtremePHP]
Hello,   My name is Ken Egervari ('speek' as you might know me in #java).  I talked with boxed the other day about helping you guys out with improving the documentation.  After reading the documentation for the first time, I noticed it could use some clarifications here and there, more conci

[OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP?

2002-12-09 Thread Aslak Hellesøy
Hi! I'm about to start a new project, and we have decided to use WebWork. I'd like to hear what kind of view technology the WebWork users/developers recommend. I'm hesitating between Velocity and JSP. I prefer Velocity over JSP because it's quicker to use for development (no need to recompile as