-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ANN] Struts + Velocity + Tools +... Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:48:29 -0500 From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Velocity Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],"Velocity Developer's List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Real Soon Now is Now. Thanks to Gabriel and Ted for this as well as everyone that contributed and supported the discussion. There is a new CVS repository called jakarta-velocity-tools It is where we can put together our tool project. I will add this (and -dvsl) to the jakarta cvs page, but you can go there directly : http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-velocity-tools/ And of course, for those that use CVS clients, just cvs checkout jakarta-velocity-tools Currently, there are two parts : View ===== This is a general purpose servlet that does tool loading, and is meant to be used in place of (or along side of) JspServlet. The toolbox stuff is rudimentary and untested (I put it together today) and there are lots of refinements to be made. View includes an example that uses Gabriel's cool self-building war, so to see how this works, just go to exmaple/simple and type ant devwar And then deploy that war. You can see it work with the simple index.vm - so to test, just point the browser at the servlet engine, and suppose you called the war strutsvel.war http://localhost:8080/strutsvel/index.vm And you will hopefully see it work There are a a few cool things in View that will probably migrate into Velocity proper, namely the WebappLoader, which does template loading via letting the container return input streams, and a ServletLogger, which lets the velocity log stuff go to the servlet log file for convenience. These features depend on the current 1.3-dev jar, which is included. Struts ====== This is a package that contains the stuff needed to connect Struts and Velocity, and the overwhelming majority of the hard work was done by Gabriel Sidler and Ted Husted (from Struts-land). It has the same project structure as View, you can build the jar, but there is an excellent example WAR put together by Gabriel with major contributions by Ted that show three or so apps done using Struts both with JSP and Velocity, so you can compare and contrast. That too should be in the example/struts directory and a ant devwar should build it. Deploy and enjoy. There are a few tools in here that are going to come back out because they are generic and go live in View or Tools. I got sick of moving things around today :) One really cool thing is that no special Struts support is required for this, and it works with struts 1.0, the released version. Hats off to Gabriel for this (if you wear a hat...). Once this is reasonably tested and we do a release, we'll add Struts to our list of supported frameworks :) And coming : Tools ===== Not checked in yet, this will be a general tool space, where we can grab the stuff in commons-sandbox/rupert and give care and feeding VM == Not started. Need some ideas - basically a collection of VMs Sorry about the delay (but some things are worth waiting for). I'll add links from the Velocity site and make nightly's later today. Also, if someone has better ideas on how this might be organized and arranged, just speak up... -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting "We will be judged not by the monuments we build, but by the monuments we destroy" - Ada Louise Huxtable -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
