I was going to post a similar 'any tips on using AJAX and Velocity together' topic when I noticed there was already some coverage on the mailing list. Unfortunately all the links below seem to be dead. I read Will's comments as below, but unfortunately I think they are a bit over my head and that means I need to learn some basic Ajax. Does anyone have a good place to start? We already use the prototype JavaScript library for other non-ajax reasons, so I would like to leverage that if it makes sense to do so. There are many Ajax helper frameworks out there that claim to be great and make life easier - is that true and is there a particular one I should look to integrate into our codebase?
Any tips for an experienced J2EE/velocity engineer but AJAX rookie would be appreciated. Peter. I use Velocity with Ajax to generate the server-side responses. More > commonly I do JSON responses but have also done XML. For me, the > Velocity does no parsing, merely generates the AJAX reponse like it > would any other text. It's convenient to specify a few lines of > velocity, save it to my web directory, then retrieve with an AJAX > call. > > WILL -----Original Message----- From: Gyanesh M Khanolkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 11:22 PM To: 'Velocity Users List' Subject: RE: AJAX anyone? Thanks all for your mails. For a starter like me, your mails have saved me a lot of time. Cheers!!! G -----Original Message----- From: dizzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 4:08 AM To: Velocity Users List Subject: Re: AJAX anyone? Ehm i dont understand why you are using xml. In most cases its useles (or nuke on fly ;). Using rendered html fragments is usually straight solution Check this: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/10/27/sprinkle-ajax-magic-into-struts -webapp.html?page=3 http://klokan.sh.cvut.cz/~dizzi/ajax.js you can get this script - its slightly edited script from url above (ive fixed some bugs with form handling and parameter encoding) anytime you can get robust package like dojo - check this url: http://www.firstpartners.net/red-piranha/knowledgebase/AjaxJavaLibraries Best regards d. On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:54:03 +0200, Gyanesh M Khanolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I have been playing around with AJAX only to find the nightmare of > handling XML based Server responses. The pain area for any AJAX > developer seems to be parsing and embedding XML data inside a HTML > code that is eventually sits within a JavaScript. It makes life HELL > for developing and maintaining AJAX based sites when we have HTML + > XML handing code within a JavaScript. > > > I seem to find the idea of using Velocity for AJAX based solutions > MUCH better to the ones many have been talking about. I think its cool > to shoot out the HTML code from template directly to the browser which > will just blindly paste it inside the right HTML pocket. Also when > running in a cached mode, I think we can achieve the desired response > levels as well !! Now this is cool !!! > > > Anyone in the Dev community here also share the same views as I do? > Are there any issues you think that I should consider when including > Velocity for AJAX based solutions? > > > Thanks, > > Gyanesh > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/428 - Release Date: 8/25/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
