Hi Peter,
I understand Your anger about out.println.
Here are some ideas:
Write a small Java apl that takes a text from a file
and does the following:
-You can do a replace all " with \" .
-put at every line out.println(" at the begin and ") at the end.
Than You will have a file that contains the out.println s and copy it into
your source.
This in case that You DON'T want to deal with any templates.
BUT sooner or later You will find out that if changeings in design
will produce as result to modify EVERY page that is generated using
Servlets.
And changings in DESIGN ar very likely to produce every month
(in this changeing world).
So here is how i work:
I have created a TemplateReader class that supports reading a template
(HTML file) with comments marking zones like this :
<!--beginnews-->
News
<!--endnews-->
My servlet takes this template and fills out the dinamic part (news) and if
the page design should be changed it can be done only the comments are to be
kept.
The servlet source looks like this:
....
StringBuffer news=new StringBuffer();
news.append("Today's news as follows:...");
TemplateReader template=new TemplateReeader(pathtotemplatefile,true);
template.addReplaceAllRule("
<!--beginnews-->","<!--endnews-->",news.toString() );
template.addReadRule("</html>");
template.returnProcessedTextTo(out);
templat.close();
out.close();
.....
As You can see no out.println() :-))
I have tought that webmacro, freemaker etc. are too complex to be used
by me. If my project will reach a more advanced stage i will use them.
So because this TemplateReader was written by me i know at every stage what
happens exactly.
You can write Your own TemplateReader.
p.s. If this message was boring or doesn't interst You press DEL.
Best wishes,
Andras
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: out.println(".....");? There's STILL no better way
> I totally agree ........ my code would've been around 60 kb if it wasn't
for
> these out.println and the need to put the escape character \ on every " in
> the HTML output. Yukkkss!!!!! Thanks to all these tiresome and
unneccessary
> (correct spelling ?) out.println formatting, the code is now close to 130
> kb. And that's after using a StringBuffer object to avoid typing
out.println
> for every HTML line.....................
>
> Ohh and if anyone comes up with a reply that contains the word "webmacro",
> "freemarker", "ecs" and all that template/jsp crap, may you rot in hell!!!
>
> Please all you open source java gurus, put us servlet developers out of
this
> println misery!
>
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