Rick, Could you elaborate on what you find distastful about Velocity? I've just started using it as my primary presentation layer tool in struts, because i found the templating language so clean and clear. The ablitiy to stick what ever object i'd like in its context, and then refer to it in a simple intuitive language construct was fresh air for me. Tastes vary, i know, but maybe you've run across things i haven't yet, that turned you off.
dave On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 23:56, Rick Reumann wrote: > Craig McClanahan wrote: > > > For applications you are about to start on, if it is your intent to > > use the Struts HTML tags for your view tier, you should review that > > decision in the light of the developments of the last few months, > > since the JSF spec went final, to say nothing of the availability of > > alternative view tier technologies (XML, Velocity, ...) that work with > > Struts as well. If these tags work for you, that's fine ... but be > > aware that you are buying in to a mature technology that is unlikely > > to change much in the future. > > Craig, can you elaborate on this a bit more? I'm confused because if you > went with a different front end presentation other than JSP and Struts > HTML form tags, why would it matter that you chose Struts HTML tags for > the JSP portion? If you later chose an XML/XSLT or Velocity > (yuk:)solution for your view you'd end up scrapping the JSPs altogether > anyway so why would it matter what tags you used to build the JSPs that > you would be replacing? Or are you basically saying to not even bothr > using JSPs for a front end view? (I've seen good velocity templates and > I'll take a *clean* JSP using JSTL and tags over Velocity any day of the > week). Thanks for your thoughts and all your work on Struts, JSF, > Tomcat, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
