Re: [Stripes-users] I Picked Templating Engine X... Over JSPs and Stripes TLDs... and This is WHY???

2010-05-27 Thread Nikolaos Giannopoulos
Alamgir, Thanks for the link. I looked at the project however the overview tells me very little: "Rayures is a library that makes developing web applications with Stripes even more enjoyable. The View module provides integration with Velocity, and many conveniences, while the Test makes i

Re: [Stripes-users] I Picked Templating Engine X... Over JSPs and Stripes TLDs... and This is WHY???

2010-05-27 Thread Freddy Daoud
Nikolaos, I needed to load templates from the classpath. I also needed to process templates in a somewhat 'standalone' mode. Both were easier with Velocity than JSPs. I also needed a templating solution for another framework (another language, even!) that just merged a map of key-value pairs with

Re: [Stripes-users] I Picked Templating Engine X... Over JSPs and Stripes TLDs... and This is WHY???

2010-05-27 Thread Nikolaos Giannopoulos
Freddy, Thanks for the reply and as you have used Velocity so much I would love to hear: --> At least 3 "specific" "key" reasons why "their choice" of templating engine was selected over JSPs and built-in TLDs? I don't just want to hear "I use templating engine X which is great for me" OR "

Re: [Stripes-users] I Picked Templating Engine X... Over JSPs and Stripes TLDs... and This is WHY???

2010-05-26 Thread Will Hartung
On May 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Nikolaos Giannopoulos wrote: > Morten et al., > > OK... I'll bite... . I really didn't want this to devolve into "my choice" > of templating engine is better, and there are many comparisons out there, but > we are developing a large project and if I'm going to fi

Re: [Stripes-users] I Picked Templating Engine X... Over JSPs and Stripes TLDs... and This is WHY???

2010-05-26 Thread Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind
On 26-05-2010 at 13:22, Nikolaos Giannopoulos wrote: > --> At least 3 "specific" "key" reasons why "their choice" of > templating engine was selected over JSPs and built-in TLDs? At my work, the choice is usually made due to a simple criterion: "Will it be used outside screen rendering?"

[Stripes-users] I Picked Templating Engine X... Over JSPs and Stripes TLDs... and This is WHY???

2010-05-26 Thread Nikolaos Giannopoulos
Morten et al., OK... I'll bite... . I really didn't want this to devolve into "my choice" of templating engine is better, and there are many comparisons out there, but we are developing a large project and if I'm going to find the need to switch down the road better NOW than later. With tha