2007/1/29, Nathan Bubna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
However, we then must ask the question of whether we're going to allow modules for other template engines too? I don't think we have to answer yes to that, though. JSP, for all its problems, is the "standard" so it is easy to say we will only maintain support for Tiles+JSP here. Then we can leave Tiles+Velocity or Tiles+Freemarker to be developed elsewhere. As the VelocityTools lead, i really don't care much either way.
I think that the part of VelocityTools for Tiles is more connected to Tiles than to Velocity. If you think about Struts 2, the FreeMarker integration is just inside Struts 2 itself (I think it's a module, correct me if I am wrong). I agree that JSP will remain the base for all development, but since David made a great work on removing the dependencies between the view/template technology and the rendering, the porting to Velocity and FreeMarker will be easy (at least for Velocity/Freemarker experts :-) ) and, I suppose, the best place to put integration code is inside a Tiles module. You just have not a "JSPTools" for Struts :-) Just my 2 eurocents Antonio
