The best intro to Velocity I saw was in Ted Husted's "Struts in Action" book chapter 17. If you can, try and get hold of a copy and take a look. ["Struts in Action" by Ted Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus, David Winterfeldt, published by Manning] Its just a short chapter giving a very brief info, but until the time I read it Id always thought velocity was complex and obscure. From what I saw in Ted's book though it seems easy to use, convienient and very powerful. Im not using either JSP or Velocity at the moment (I do funny business with org.w3c.dom classes ;-> - but if Id had Teds book earlier...), but if I had to choose one or the other I reckon Id pick Velocity. (Mind you I also have a pathelogical dislike of JSP so may be biased...)
Velocity comes with some 'velocity tools' that do much the same as the struts tags - indeed Velocity does a lot of the same sort of 'beans in contexts' stuff that JSP does. >From what you say about your planned application, Id say you want to make use of the struts nested forms stuff. Im not sure if there is direct support for this approach with velocity or not. Hopefully someone reading this knows and can enlighten us :-) You may be better off taking the more common approach of using JSP and making use of the same struts nested tags, tiles, and JSTL, etc for which there are plenty of people on the list who can help you... -----Original Message----- From: Ronald Mathies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:12 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Advantage of the Velocity Engine That people would give a personal preference or view about the Velocity engine is very interesting, becouse they realy have worked with it for most of the time. I've had a personal reaction of someone that convinced me to take a closer look at it and see what it is about in real life development. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Advantage of the Velocity Engine > Any response you get will probably be just personal preference. It would be > difficult to use Velocity unless you are familiar with it's tags/syntax, the > same applies to using plain jsp(with struts tags), plain jsp with (struts-el > tags), or even XML/XSLT (stxx). > > But the, you couldn't do _ANY_ of the above if you aren't familiar with > HTML. > > > My $.02 > > -- > James Mitchell > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronald Mathies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:23 AM > Subject: Advantage of the Velocity Engine > > > > Hi All, > > > > I've read tru the documentation on the Jakarta site > > (http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/user-guide.html). > > But i'm still a bit unsure about using it. > > > > Can anyone tell me the main advantages or dis-advantages of the Velocity > > engine ? And in what kind of senario is it realy usefull to work with the > > Velocity engine ? Maybe there are some other variants of the Velocity > Engine > > ? > > > > We build a lot of data intensive applications, these applications run on > the > > intranet of a company and are rarely used for access by their customers. > So > > the avarage userbase whould be around 20 to 350 users and about 10 to 25 > > simul.). The screens would include mother - doughter relasionships and > have > > quite some fields on the pages (between 10 and 30 fields). > > > > So any comments whould be helpfull. > > > > Thanx. > > > > Ronald. > > > > > > -- > > 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]> > > -- 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]>
