Hi Sergiu
Well, that was the other thing that nagged me today. Now I need to manually
revert the documents from the Groovy script back to the Velocity script in
order to make it work with the default blog.
I completely agree there should be a clear separation between the document /
content and the presentation / scripting. But let's have a closer look:
- Presentation can be done through wiki markup I guess (looks like CSS to me)
- Controlling the work flow (create new / edit exiting entry, create / update
category, add / update tags, publish / hide, delete entry etc) can be done
through hooks and server side scripting
- Ajax functionality: needs some server side scripting but I don't know how
this would work on the client side
I don't know how easy or difficult it would be to introduce service side hooks
into XWiki to enable the creation of applications like the blog.
Have fun - Andy
On Apr 11, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 11:17 PM, Andreas Schaefer wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> After using my Groovy based XWiki Blog I decided that I am not going to
>> pursue this any further because of these issues:
>>
>> - Groovy applications still have more limitations than Velocity making it
>> very difficult to use as an alternative
>> - It is very difficult to deploy my own Groovy blog application because I
>> have to go over several hoops to install it (content, plugins, plugin
>> configurations)
>> - Most of the issues where related to Groovy based Panels which seems not to
>> be possible
>> - No interest in it
>>
>> Even though I think that Groovy would be a much better way to script
>> applications like the Blog XWiki seems not to be ready to embrace it. From
>> my point of view the entrenched usage of Velocity makes it very difficult to
>> go beyond a simple page script in another scripting language.
>
> What I'd like is to be able to write such an application solely with
> wiki markup, no scripting at all. Something like:
>
> (% class="hfeed single" %)(((
> {{withObject type="Blog.BlogPostClass"}}
> (% class="blogdate" %)
> == {{property name="publishDate"/}} ==
>
> (% class="hentry single-article" %)(((
> (% class="entry-content" %)(((
> {{property name="content"/}}
> )))
> )))
> {{/withObject}}
> )))
> --
> Sergiu Dumitriu
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