Re: request for feedback on proposed parameter tag

2003-08-20 Thread Dave Johnson
Absolutely, there is interest. Being able to specify requests parameters without needing to create a map would be a wonderful thing. Every developer that I have introduced to Struts requests this very same thing. Instead of instructing developers to use a non-standard map creation tag (as Martin

Re: Velocity vs. JSP: objective tests?

2002-11-22 Thread Dave Johnson
David Graham wrote: I've always found it amusing that people are worried about page authors totally screwing up the application by executing arbitrary code. Who are these rogue page authors you're hiring that will destroy your app? What if, for example, you have an e-Commerce catalog and

Re: Velocity vs. JSP: objective tests?

2002-11-22 Thread Dave Johnson
David Graham wrote: JSP wouldn't be an option anyways because ordinary users wouldn't understand it. The vast majority of situations are not like the one you describe. You are correct. More imporantly, if you are choosing between JSP and Velocity as your Struts View technology then the

Re: [Roller-development] RE: Velocity vs. JSP: objective tests?

2002-11-22 Thread Dave Johnson
No offence taken, but I do have some comments, which are below... yeah, no offense intended to David Johnson, but that's a really poor way to use Velocity. it looks as though that method is intended to spit out some HTML hardcoded into whatever $macros is or some such thing. the HTML