Yes, I saw that, thanks, unfortunately my configuration still uses the original VelocityServlet, and that appears to be a tool that requires the VelocityView structure. I suppose writing a more generic version that incorporates content caching won't be too bad.
Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Bubna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:17 PM To: Velocity Users List Subject: Re: pulling static content from a URL into a velocity template? You mean like the ImportTool? http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/view/ImportTool.html On 10/6/06, Peter Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems to me like a problem that (I hope) is a common one and has been > solved. On certain 'impact' velocity powered pages, I would like to provide > non technical content editors the means of adding content to a > specific portion of a velocity template, in such a way that the > content is rendered dynamically and can be changed on a different > schedule and independently of the template itself or the build/deploy > cycle. So basically I would like to include some static html from an > external URL when the template is parsed and rendered. > > Note that the #include doesn't sound like the right approach since > this includes actual files from the template root - I would like to > 'include' the content from an external URL so that the content does > not need to be tied to our build and deploy process and can exist and > be changed completely in our 'static content' area by content editors. > > One idea I had was to make a custom velocity tool that reads the > content in via a Java http get request that can be called from VTL > with the url to get- I like this idea because the tool can be expanded > to cache content for higher demand pages, but I would like to hear some other suggestions. > > -- > Peter Locke > Senior Engineer / Dev Lead > www.abebooks.com <http://www.abebooks.com/> > > t: 250.412.3240 > f: 250.475-6014 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > P.S. I'm currently reading What's Bred in the Bone > <http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bx=off&sts=t&ds=30&bi=0 > &an=rob > ertson+davies&tn=what%27s+bred+in+the+bone> by Robertson Davies > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
