Thanks for the pointer, Jonathan. That's very interesting. WILL
On 8/30/05, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nathan Bubna wrote: > > Hi Jake, > > > > it's something we've talked about, but haven't implemented here. i'm > > fairly certain the WebWork guys have (or, at least, had) support for > > using tags in velocity templates as part of their framework, but i > > haven't looked at that recently. > > Well, FYI, the WebWork guys are unlikely to be doing much further wrt > hacking in support for JSP taglibs in Velocity. > > As of the new release cycle, WW 2.2 has switched from Velocity to > FreeMarker as its default template engine. The main reason for the > switch was apparently FM's support for JSP taglibs. Actually, that was > one of two main reasons cited. The other was FM's superior error > reporting. > > Here is one blog entry mentioning a WW guy's experience switching over. > > > http://jroller.com/page/webwork2live?anchor=switch_to_from_velocity_freemarker > > So, anyway, it seems safe to assume that the WW guys aren't going to do > anything further wrt trying to use JSP taglibs in Vel. They (finally) > decided to take the path of least resistance and just use a template > engine that already had the feature they needed. > > I actually hesitated before writing this note. But finally, I just think > it's clearly on-topic and certainly it is very useful information for > the person who started the thread and anybody else interested in this > topic. > > Here is the link describing FreeMarker's JSP taglibs support: > > http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_misc_servlet.html#autoid_48 > > Regards, > > Jonathan Revusky > -- > lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ > > > > > > another alternative some have discussed in regards to this is using > > the ImportTool ( > http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html) > > to include content from other view technologies. jsp tags would > > presumably fall into this category. > > > > On 8/30/05, Jake Robwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Please excuse if my question is totally stupid, but > >>are there any wrappers for Velocity around taglibs? > >> > >>There are many good taglibs available, and may of them would be very > >>useful in projects based on Velocity, not JSP for presentation. > >>To rewrite those taglibs in Velocity would be a huge task, but with a > >>wrapper those taglibs could be used (till a 'rewriting' in 'pure > >>Velocity' takes place). > >> > >>I couldn't find anything about this. > >> > >>I would appreciate any pointers/ideas/help/suggestions. > >> > >>regards, > >> > >>Jake. > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
