[appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-16 Thread Max
checkout play framework GAE module it's using Groovy template, which is quite nice and clean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine for Java group. To view this discussion on the web visit

[appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-13 Thread Anton Mochalin
I've made a little research on templating engines for Java when building my little CMS for GAE and also chose Freemarker - they say it's faster and also its JAR loads faster than Velocity which is important for GAE that needs to reload app's JARs after some period of inactivity because of its

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-13 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
I've used many different Java templating systems over the years and been terribly disappointed with all of them... until recently. I started using Cambridge Templates: http://code.google.com/p/cambridge/ Here's a good intro document: http://blog.erdincyilmazel.com/ The docs are a little rough

[appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-13 Thread Paul
Apache Wicket is really nice, but it may be not as lightweight as you'd like. At least it gets you as far away as possible from stuff like JSP/JSF :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine for Java group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-09 Thread Mos
I'm using Freemarker (together with Spring MVC and Sitemesh). Easy to use and works like a charm on GAE. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel Florey daniel.flo...@gmail.comwrote: You can check out our comparison page for the different engines available:

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-09 Thread Matthew Jaggard
Hi Daniel, Thanks for that - really helpful and I'll be sure to look carefully at that option. One metric that you miss out and I consider important for GAE is start-up time. How long does it take from starting the JVM to serving the first template? At the moment, the majority of my requests

[appengine-java] Re: Templating Frameworks

2011-11-08 Thread dimi
Hi Mat, I started with Java web development on GAE in January. I did some research on template frameworks because I came from the PHP-world. I wanted a templating engine without importing a large framework, without learning a complete new language, and with some good documentation. My choice