Well. I thought so a while ago as well - start with that, but feel free to contact me for advise on how to include freemarker easily.
(Except for it's way of handling null properties freemarker is very nice). Morten 2010/5/26 Nikolaos Giannopoulos <nikol...@brightminds.org> > Everyone, > > Thanks for the suggestions... looks like I am simply going to use a simple > string replacement templating class we wrote a while back... as the effort > to integrate a Templating framework just for simple out of web container > HTML e-mails is not worth it IMHO. > > Much Appreciated! > > --Nikolaos > > > > > Daniil Sosonkin wrote: > > That is an eternal question, right. Which engine to use for simple > templates? Personally, I settled upon http://jxp.sourceforge.net, its > simple enough and fast enough and gives more power than just regex and very > intuitive. Just my 2 pennies. > > Nikolaos Giannopoulos wrote: > > Stripes and Stripernate in conjunction with Spring, JPA, Hibernate, > Lucene, etc... IS EVERYTHING its billed to be IMO! Moreover, I > initially considered a more advanced templating technology (FreeMarker, > Velocity, etc...) but once again as the Stripes team envisioned the > simplicity of JSPs and the excellent Stripes tag support (layouts, > forms, etc...) for them are actually quite powerful and quite sufficient. > > HOWEVER... one aspect of our system is to generate HTML E-mails and for > that it is important to point out that the Task Server processes that > will generate the e-mails will be in the Services layer and will not sit > within a web container (i.e. they will be simple Java Processes > processing against the DB w/o UI). > > Here are some options I am tossing around: > > 1) Forget about Java Web Templating and simply do variable substitution > on an HTML template. Right now this is my top choice. > > 2) Use the built-in web container in Java 6 to process the JSPs, inject > a HTTP Request and Capture the HTTP Response. This feels like a BIG > kludge not to mention a lot of effort for very little gain... . > > Beyond getting into a Holy War on what Templating technology is better > suited to the task I am curious what others have done OR what would > anyone suggest if they didn't have a Templating technology beyond JSP? > > Much Appreciated! > > --Nikolaos > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing > liststripes-us...@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > > -- Morten Matras Consultant Blob Communication ApS Svendsagervej 42 DK-5240 Odense NØ P: (+45) 76 6-5-4-3-2-1 W: www.blobcom.com E: morten.mat...@gmail.com
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