On Nov 19, 2007 11:39 AM, Jim Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope that Struts 2 continues to strongly support Freemarker. In > fact, I wish they promoted it as the preferred choice.
FreeMarker is cool, but I'm still a die-hard Velocity fan :) Here's the thing: If we started using FreeMarker or Velocity as our primary examples, this move would quickly turn into FUD like about the group abandoning JSP. And, realistically, the people who need the most help from the examples are newbies being forced to use JSPs. Though, I would agree that our FreeMarker and Velocity documentation could go into greater detail of why these systems are technically superior to JSPs, and we could use many more ftl/vt cookbook articles. (Feel free to contribute!) On Nov 19, 2007 12:55 PM, Brian Pontarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [JAR-ability] is one of the main reasons why FreeMarker and Velocity were > added > as engines to WebWork and Struts. Back in the day, *all* of the other MVC frameworks focussed on Velocity. I'd wager that, more than anything else, the JSP taglib is the reason why people are using Struts today, rather than Barracuda or Maverick or Turbine, or several others that existed before Struts 1 shipped. At first, people touted that templates were safer and better suited for MVC since there were no scriptlets (good point!). Later, people added the argument that we could put templates in JARS (better point!). Being able to load JSPs from the classpath would definitely be the single biggest functional upgrade to the technology. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
