Re: Velocity powered Websites - request

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net>]

On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Matthew Walker wrote:

> Apologies for noise contribution
>
> The document, http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/powered.html, 
> explains that I should e-mail this list to request my site to be added 
> to the 'Velocity Powered Websites' section of 
> jakarta,apache.org/velocity. With that said, data is below:
>
> URL: tbjug.org
> Description: Online presence for the Tampa Bay Java User Group
> Created By: OAS (http://www.oasportal.com/)
>

Done

> Also, (and more to the recipients out there), I would like to discuss 
> this graphic, http://tbjug.org/images/velocity_diagram.png, which 
> depicts a (high level) design of the site and how velocity is 
> involved. This is my first velocity implementation and I'm wondering 
> if any experienced archs out there see this as absurd, (or not).
> For clarification, the servlet inheritance allows me to easily append 
> logic to the site by simply extending TBVelocityServlet. The 
> descendants are only tasked with going about their business and adding 
> stuff to the Context and can be blissfully ignorant of which template 
> to load. I feel comfortable with this from an MVC perspective since my 
> servlets are all Model. This is the way it should be, and I'm 
> beginning to forget what life was like before velocity. Anyway, I'm 
> very eager to see if other people have used similar designs. Of 
> course, using tbjug.org and keeping an eye on one's URI should support 
> the graphic's flow of things if further clarification is needed.

Looking at the graphic now, that seems good.  I tend to do things the 
same way.  I have a base servlet that deals with velocity stuff, and 
just extend it for the specific uses.  I use a cheap little 'action 
model' using reflection, and while admittedly cheesy, it does get done 
what I want to get done very simply.

geir

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Geir Magnusson Jr                                   203-247-1713(m)
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