I've actually done what you describe. After building a half-assed version
using JSP, I abandoned it in favor or Velocity. The Velocity version ended
up being 1/2 the complexity of the JSP version because of the difficulty in
embedding a servlet engine into a component which is using an RMI protocol.
(otherwise, talking to your mail templates over a socket using HTTP is
pretty lame)
It comes down to one very powerful thing Velocity has over JSP: it's
completely uncoupled from any servlet technology.
> Hi,
> Our team was recently discussing potential usage of .jsp pages as
> templates for use with automatic mail generation and other automated
> tasks when the result is not sent via http but stored and/or processed.
> Are there any (open-source preffered) projects (taglibs?) with similar
> goals? If not, do you think it's something with enough demand to
> release it when it's late-beta?
> The discussed approach was to include a jsp-template inside of a custom
> tag redirecting it to a specified e-mail address/list on an itermediate
> (process and forward type) jsp page.
>
> Greetings, deacon Marcus
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