I am evaluating Shale. I realize it is a work in progress and that nothing is fully finallized/stable and I expect there to be issues. I also expect great things from Shale in the future and want to help track down issues for development. Hence, my eval. I've got some questions about Clay...
I have searched the mailing list archives and found psuedo answers to my issues but nothing concrete. I am trying to utalize tapestry like views and full HTML layout. I've read the online doc and downloaded and read the PDF doc. I have also looked at the code for the Use Case Roladex which seemed to just confuse me more. I know people have asked for a simpler example of using Clay already, so I won't. But I would like some clarification. If I want to use tapestry like views and full html layout, do I need the clay-template-suffix context param and do I need to map the servlet to the same extension. Also the documentation shows the clay-template-suffix as .clay and then the servlet mapping as .html. It states both should be the same. Is HTML preferred? Exactly what file should I place my component declarations in and where should this file reside? For full HTML layout, do I need a JSP that pulls in the appropriate template using the clay-shale taglib? Is there currently any other documentation that I am not aware of concerning Clay? Thanks a bunch and I look forward to Shale's growth. Gregg Bolinger
