XDoclet w/ Velocity

[Mike Williams <mi...@cortexebusiness.com.au>]

  Geir> What is xdoclet?

  Konstantin> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet

  Geir> That's wild.  I wonder if they would use Velocity for templating :)

I've been working on just such a thing: an EJB code-generator using
Velocity.  Unfortunately, my employer wants to keep it in-house at the
moment, but there's a chance that I might convince them to release it as
open-source eventually.

My experience so far has been that doing it with Velocity has made for a
much cleaner, MVC-ish design.  And the templates are considerably more
readable than the XDoclet equivalents.  Of course, I haven't matched all of
their functionality yet :-)

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Re: XDoclet w/ Velocity

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

On 12/2/01 5:36 PM, "Mike Williams" <mi...@cortexebusiness.com.au> wrote:

> Geir> What is xdoclet?
> 
> Konstantin> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet
> 
> Geir> That's wild.  I wonder if they would use Velocity for templating :)
> 
> I've been working on just such a thing: an EJB code-generator using
> Velocity.  Unfortunately, my employer wants to keep it in-house at the
> moment, but there's a chance that I might convince them to release it as
> open-source eventually.

That would be cool. Please try.

> 
> My experience so far has been that doing it with Velocity has made for a
> much cleaner, MVC-ish design.  And the templates are considerably more
> readable than the XDoclet equivalents.  Of course, I haven't matched all of
> their functionality yet :-)

Yah,  I know that feeling.  I like generating XML with Velocity because the
control and logic stand out.  Using XSLT, for example, it all becomes a blur
for me.  JSP too, to some degree as well...


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