[OT] Velocity + Delphi

[Leon Messerschmidt <le...@opticode.co.za>]

 Hi All,

 I have a colleague who needs to do some html presentation from Delphi app
 and for obvious reasons he would like to use a tool that is based on the
 Velocity spec.  Delphi do provide a reflection api for published
properties,
 so I'm sure it cold be done.

 My first question is pushing my luck a bit.  Does anyone know about
 something like this?  I've searched for anything similar, but came up empty
 handed.  He'll probably be satisfied with anything that is relatively
 similar.

 We also spoke about implementing a Delphi version based on the Velocity
 template spec.  Nothing has been decided yet but it is a possibility and
 we're just throwing some ideas around.  I would like to have some
 comments/suggestions.  Would it for example be possible to do an
 implementation that is endorsed by Jakarta Velocity?  Are there other
 developers out there who might contribute to a possible open source
 initiative?

 ~ Leon

Re: [OT] Velocity + Delphi

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

(Chasing Leon around from list to list...)

Leon Messerschmidt wrote:
> 
>  Hi All,
> 
>  I have a colleague who needs to do some html presentation from Delphi app
>  and for obvious reasons he would like to use a tool that is based on the
>  Velocity spec.  Delphi do provide a reflection api for published
> properties,
>  so I'm sure it cold be done.
> 
>  My first question is pushing my luck a bit.  Does anyone know about
>  something like this?  I've searched for anything similar, but came up empty
>  handed.  He'll probably be satisfied with anything that is relatively
>  similar.
> 
>  We also spoke about implementing a Delphi version based on the Velocity
>  template spec.  Nothing has been decided yet but it is a possibility and
>  we're just throwing some ideas around.  I would like to have some
>  comments/suggestions.  Would it for example be possible to do an
>  implementation that is endorsed by Jakarta Velocity?  Are there other
>  developers out there who might contribute to a possible open source
>  initiative?

This would be very cool.  I can't imagine that it has been done already
though - I would think that given the size of the Delphi market (or,
what it used to be) that there would be countless output solutions that
already exist.

I wonder if you could find an open-source one and modify it for Vel's
syntax?

geir

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Geir Magnusson Jr.                           geirm@optonline.net
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