This is only a voice of one, and a Struts 2 newcomer at that, but I
use themes (and Freemarker) and think they're the greatest thing
since sliced bread. What I like about them is that they can make
"best practices" automatic. The built in themes sensibly assign IDs,
associate labels with their respective form fields, produce good (X)
HTML, etc. I've created my own theme that, among other things,
automatically looks up a label (based on the field name) from the
resource bundle, using the "label" parameter as a default value.
Point is, it does/can produce the HTML that we wish the web designers
would give us, but they don't.
That said, I've had some frustrations with them. The need to define a
component was non-obvious, but once I learned it, I found it super
spiffy. I share Ian's frustration with extending a profile, and I
wish components could have open/body/close sections.
So, for what it's worth: +1 themes, +1 freemarker, -∞ JSP. :)
P.S. I hope to share my theme with the Struts project someday, but
two things have to happen before I can. a) I've got to clean it up,
and b) I've got to get approval from my employer.
On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Ian Roughley wrote:
What is the impact on themes going to be? Or is the consensus that
themes aren't really used, and individualizing the themes into
tags, with writing more HTML code by hand is the solution?
Don't get me wrong - I have a love-hate relationship with theme's.
I think they are nice for some things, but generally miss-
understood and a cause of quiet a few problems. One of the biggest
issues I've personally had, is there is not a good way to extend
one theme from another (and not a good way of implementing a
solution).
/Ian
Piero Sartini wrote:
S2 without freemarker would be great: +1
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