Yeah! That's the way! I'm using something like $title$ however, but it
took me only 10 minutes to make a parser for it and now I'm all set. If
anyone wants to get this method feel free to write.
-- Misha
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Justin Wells wrote:
> ECS is great when you are generating data programmatically--you can
> write code that generates HTML/XML as it traverses some structure.
>
> Thereare a variety of good template systems which you can use in the
> other case--where you basically know what the page should look like,
> and you want to drop some dynamic content into it.
>
> One such framework is WebMacro (which is free), which introspects
> objects to determine what information it could pull out (ie: bean style).
>
> http://webmacro.org/
>
> So you would create a template like this:
>
> <html><head><title>$title</title></head><body>
> <h1>Customer: $customer.Name</h1>
> Outstanding balance is $customer.Account.Balance
> </body></html>
>
> This template gets compiled into an efficient form and shared between
> servlets; thus it is what Luther called a shared object.
>
> You use it like this:
>
> Customer cust = ...;
>
> context.put("title","Customer Account Balance");
> context.put("customer", cust);
>
> And WebMacro takes care of figuring out how to extract the required
> information; in this case perhaps by calling
>
> $customer.Name --> Customer.getName()
> $customer.Account.Balance --> Customer.getAccount().getBalance()
>
> Of course you can also loop through lists of customers, conditionally
> include stiff, and so forth,
>
> http://webmacro.org/
>
> Justin
>
> Quoting Raphael Gillett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I agree wholeheartedly with Luther's aim of reducing
> > unnecessary, tedious & errorprone typing.
> >
> > Jon's ECS solution does not achieve that goal, because
> > it involves a lot of extra typing (e.g. many out.println
> > statements are simply replaced with many addElements).
> > Of course ECS is useful for other purposes.
> >
> > Luther has identified a much-needed feature that
> > would benefit us all.
> >
> > We should be wary of the "Real Java Programmers
> > don't ... " reaction. The key questions are those of
> > utility and non-duplication.
> >
> > Raphael Gillett
> >
> >
> >
> > jon * wrote:
> >
> > > > Probably it's not just servlet having the problem.
> > > > I found java in general not handy at handling the
> > > > println method to print out a block of text for example.
> > > >
> > > > It's very easy in perl to print out a block of text like
> > > > print <<THEEND
> > > > what ever the text
> > > > .....
> > > > THEEND
> > > >
> > > > but with Java, you have to print out each line...
> > > > and I also found println("( " + variabel + ") " + variable + "some text" );
> > > > is hard to read.
> > >
> > > <http://java.apache.org/ecs/>
> > >
> > > No more out.println!!!!
> > >
> > > -jon
> > >
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