I see the virtues of Velocity and I understand the argument for choice. But Jetspeed as a small open source project seems to be spreading itself and the community thin by trying to develop and document the two systems. Even though the Velocity and JSP templates are in completely different directories there is no way to avoid introducing added complexity. The worst part is that two templates divide the community into two camps. Those who use Velocity probably can't help those using JSP and vice versa. If this were a huge project like Tomcat I would definitely say there was room for this, but at this scale I think it is risking weakening a wonderful project. I suppose you could argue that the project is pooling a new set of Velocity developers, but realistically I think we are simply dividing the same pool.
-----Original Message----- From: Jan Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:43 AM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: Velocity/JSP was: Sub portals..me too On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Rutledge, Aaron wrote: > BTW: To the developers: I can't believe you guys are developing two > different templating systems--Velocity and JSP. Isn't this thing > complicated enough? It would be awesome if instead of having two > template systems we had just one verbose set of JSP tags for describing > templates. I'm not a JS developer (well, I am, but a private one) but let me answer this. Velocity is just another templating mechanism. If you don't want to use it, then you're free to ignore it. I didn't think much of it (at first) but having seen people use it for development, I'm coming around to appreciating it. If nothing else, once you've got the beans in place to successfully support velocity users, you'll find that you've wound up with a much more flexible framework for developing web views onto your app. It's a kind of "suck it and see" thing - but if you don't have the time or inclination, nobody's forcing you to suck anything :-) jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talk is cheap: free, as in beer. As in Real Ale, not that Budweiser rubbish. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
