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Posted to dev@velocity.apache.org by Jake Robwood <ja...@yahoo.com> on 2005/08/30 17:22:05 UTC
Taglibs wrapper for Velocity?
Hi,
Please excuse if my question is totally stupid, but
are there any wrappers for Velocity around taglibs?
There are many good taglibs available, and may of them would be very
useful in projects based on Velocity, not JSP for presentation.
To rewrite those taglibs in Velocity would be a huge task, but with a
wrapper those taglibs could be used (till a 'rewriting' in 'pure
Velocity' takes place).
I couldn't find anything about this.
I would appreciate any pointers/ideas/help/suggestions.
regards,
Jake.
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Re: Taglibs wrapper for Velocity?
Posted by Will Glass-Husain <wg...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for the pointer, Jonathan. That's very interesting.
WILL
On 8/30/05, Jonathan Revusky <re...@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
> Nathan Bubna wrote:
> > Hi Jake,
> >
> > it's something we've talked about, but haven't implemented here. i'm
> > fairly certain the WebWork guys have (or, at least, had) support for
> > using tags in velocity templates as part of their framework, but i
> > haven't looked at that recently.
>
> Well, FYI, the WebWork guys are unlikely to be doing much further wrt
> hacking in support for JSP taglibs in Velocity.
>
> As of the new release cycle, WW 2.2 has switched from Velocity to
> FreeMarker as its default template engine. The main reason for the
> switch was apparently FM's support for JSP taglibs. Actually, that was
> one of two main reasons cited. The other was FM's superior error
> reporting.
>
> Here is one blog entry mentioning a WW guy's experience switching over.
>
>
> http://jroller.com/page/webwork2live?anchor=switch_to_from_velocity_freemarker
>
> So, anyway, it seems safe to assume that the WW guys aren't going to do
> anything further wrt trying to use JSP taglibs in Vel. They (finally)
> decided to take the path of least resistance and just use a template
> engine that already had the feature they needed.
>
> I actually hesitated before writing this note. But finally, I just think
> it's clearly on-topic and certainly it is very useful information for
> the person who started the thread and anybody else interested in this
> topic.
>
> Here is the link describing FreeMarker's JSP taglibs support:
>
> http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_misc_servlet.html#autoid_48
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan Revusky
> --
> lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
>
>
> >
> > another alternative some have discussed in regards to this is using
> > the ImportTool (
> http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html)
> > to include content from other view technologies. jsp tags would
> > presumably fall into this category.
> >
> > On 8/30/05, Jake Robwood <ja...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Please excuse if my question is totally stupid, but
> >>are there any wrappers for Velocity around taglibs?
> >>
> >>There are many good taglibs available, and may of them would be very
> >>useful in projects based on Velocity, not JSP for presentation.
> >>To rewrite those taglibs in Velocity would be a huge task, but with a
> >>wrapper those taglibs could be used (till a 'rewriting' in 'pure
> >>Velocity' takes place).
> >>
> >>I couldn't find anything about this.
> >>
> >>I would appreciate any pointers/ideas/help/suggestions.
> >>
> >>regards,
> >>
> >>Jake.
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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Re: Taglibs wrapper for Velocity?
Posted by Jonathan Revusky <re...@wanadoo.es>.
Nathan Bubna wrote:
> Hi Jake,
>
> it's something we've talked about, but haven't implemented here. i'm
> fairly certain the WebWork guys have (or, at least, had) support for
> using tags in velocity templates as part of their framework, but i
> haven't looked at that recently.
Well, FYI, the WebWork guys are unlikely to be doing much further wrt
hacking in support for JSP taglibs in Velocity.
As of the new release cycle, WW 2.2 has switched from Velocity to
FreeMarker as its default template engine. The main reason for the
switch was apparently FM's support for JSP taglibs. Actually, that was
one of two main reasons cited. The other was FM's superior error reporting.
Here is one blog entry mentioning a WW guy's experience switching over.
http://jroller.com/page/webwork2live?anchor=switch_to_from_velocity_freemarker
So, anyway, it seems safe to assume that the WW guys aren't going to do
anything further wrt trying to use JSP taglibs in Vel. They (finally)
decided to take the path of least resistance and just use a template
engine that already had the feature they needed.
I actually hesitated before writing this note. But finally, I just think
it's clearly on-topic and certainly it is very useful information for
the person who started the thread and anybody else interested in this topic.
Here is the link describing FreeMarker's JSP taglibs support:
http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_misc_servlet.html#autoid_48
Regards,
Jonathan Revusky
--
lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
>
> another alternative some have discussed in regards to this is using
> the ImportTool (http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html)
> to include content from other view technologies. jsp tags would
> presumably fall into this category.
>
> On 8/30/05, Jake Robwood <ja...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Please excuse if my question is totally stupid, but
>>are there any wrappers for Velocity around taglibs?
>>
>>There are many good taglibs available, and may of them would be very
>>useful in projects based on Velocity, not JSP for presentation.
>>To rewrite those taglibs in Velocity would be a huge task, but with a
>>wrapper those taglibs could be used (till a 'rewriting' in 'pure
>>Velocity' takes place).
>>
>>I couldn't find anything about this.
>>
>>I would appreciate any pointers/ideas/help/suggestions.
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Jake.
>>
>>
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Re: Taglibs wrapper for Velocity?
Posted by Nathan Bubna <nb...@gmail.com>.
Hi Jake,
it's something we've talked about, but haven't implemented here. i'm
fairly certain the WebWork guys have (or, at least, had) support for
using tags in velocity templates as part of their framework, but i
haven't looked at that recently.
another alternative some have discussed in regards to this is using
the ImportTool (http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html)
to include content from other view technologies. jsp tags would
presumably fall into this category.
On 8/30/05, Jake Robwood <ja...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please excuse if my question is totally stupid, but
> are there any wrappers for Velocity around taglibs?
>
> There are many good taglibs available, and may of them would be very
> useful in projects based on Velocity, not JSP for presentation.
> To rewrite those taglibs in Velocity would be a huge task, but with a
> wrapper those taglibs could be used (till a 'rewriting' in 'pure
> Velocity' takes place).
>
> I couldn't find anything about this.
>
> I would appreciate any pointers/ideas/help/suggestions.
>
> regards,
>
> Jake.
>
>
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