Thanx everybody, i''ve got some extra lugage i can cary in my exploration to finding the ideal combination of tools and methods to work with. I'll give this freemarker a closer look and i'll experiment with the Velocity Engine to find out what it can do for me.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Attila Szegedi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:51 AM Subject: Re: Advantage of the Velocity Engine > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronald Mathies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 2003. január 20. 16:23 > 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 ? > > Compared to what? JSP? Well, you get much less complexity and a much cleaner > design in your pages. Having Java code and HTML snippets mixed in a single > file quickly turns into a maintenance hell. > > > 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 > > ? > > You might want to take a look at http://freemarker.sourceforge.net. It is > not a variant of Velocity, rather it is another open-source template engine > product with a different feature set. For one thing (and this can be > relevant if you are using or plan to use Struts), it allows you to use JSP > tag libraries in your pages so if you invested in learning Struts taglibs, > you need not throw that knowledge out of the window when you switch from JSP > to a template engine. > (Disclaimer: I *am* quite heavily affiliated with FreeMarker). > > Cheers, > Attila. > > > -- > 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]>
