You mean like the ImportTool? http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html
On 10/6/06, Peter Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This seems to me like a problem that (I hope) is a common one and has been solved. On certain 'impact' velocity powered pages, I would like to provide non technical content editors the means of adding content to a specific portion of a velocity template, in such a way that the content is rendered dynamically and can be changed on a different schedule and independently of the template itself or the build/deploy cycle. So basically I would like to include some static html from an external URL when the template is parsed and rendered. Note that the #include doesn't sound like the right approach since this includes actual files from the template root - I would like to 'include' the content from an external URL so that the content does not need to be tied to our build and deploy process and can exist and be changed completely in our 'static content' area by content editors. One idea I had was to make a custom velocity tool that reads the content in via a Java http get request that can be called from VTL with the url to get- I like this idea because the tool can be expanded to cache content for higher demand pages, but I would like to hear some other suggestions. -- Peter Locke Senior Engineer / Dev Lead www.abebooks.com <http://www.abebooks.com/> t: 250.412.3240 f: 250.475-6014 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- P.S. I'm currently reading What's Bred in the Bone <http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bx=off&sts=t&ds=30&bi=0&an=rob ertson+davies&tn=what%27s+bred+in+the+bone> by Robertson Davies
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