Jon Scott Stevens wrote:
> on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Which basically boils down to "let's just invent our own little language
>>and try to get enough people bragging about it"
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> It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well
> known/used API (DOM4J).
Language != technology.
DOM4J is technology. THe DVSL markup is language. It just so happens
that you use DOM4J in the parts where you change things--but DVSL is
where you mark what you change and when.
> Just like there are more JSP users than Velocity users.
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> Still doesn't mean that JSP is better than Velocity.
And it doesn't mean that Velocity is better than JSP. I personally am
not a JSP fan, but different tools for different fools. Quit comparing
apples and oranges. Let's get back to your thought provoking posts.
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> Using technology that is well supported, developed by a community of people
> who are not motivated by commercial or academic interests (instead, motived
> by real world requirements).
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> Heck, I bet you haven't even tried DVSL, so don't knock it until you try it.
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I haven't had a need to. If I can do everything I need outside of DVSL,
using standard technologies that can be used in other settings, what
incentive do I have? Besides Xalan is an Apache project, as is Xerces.
We use them. So how is that *not* using a technology that is *well*
supported.
As to your assertation that commercial or academic interests are not
valid motivations, you forget that they *are* real world requirements.
In fact I would assert that development efforts not originated in some
way by commercial or academic needs are efforts that are done for the
sake of doing them.
We have to eat. I eat because I program. I use Apache products because
they are better than many commercial products for the same purpose, and
because I can convince my managers that we can build our solutions with
them.
But I degress...
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