2009/4/22 David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>: > James, > > This is an interesting idea that more than one person has expressed > excitement about. Jorge Ortiz (one of the Lift committers) was puttering > around with the separation of Lift's templating from the rest of Lift. > Personally, I think it's a pretty daunting task because a lot of the ways > that Lift looks for templates and does its wiring and looks for snippets and > generally re-writes the XML (e.g., to insert the Comet JavaScript), is woven > tightly with the rest of Lift (e.g., LiftRules, LiftSession, etc.) > > I am in favor of something like this happening, but I really think it's > non-trivial. > > Perhaps... just perhaps... we could do something where we put Java wrappers > around some of the Lift-isms and use Lift as Filter in Java apps. If you'd > care to fork the Lift repository on GitHub and recruit a few others to help > you, this could be an interesting side-project that, if successful, I could > see as part of the main Lift distribution.
Cool thanks. BTW I don't much mind about ripping the template stuff out of Lift into a separate piece - I am totally happy to have LiftRules/LiftSession, Comet et al there and to keep Lift intact. I guess all I really want is a way to render a NodeSeq which can contain <lift:surround> and other arbitrary snippets inside. So all I really want is another entry point into Lift other than the filter/servlet where somehow I can do something like this... LiftServlet.render(xhtml:NodeSeq, out:OutputStream) which delves into the internal Lift stuff I don't grok in between LiftServlet and TemplateFinder and does all that cool magic :) I could pass in a servletRequest/response too if that'd help make the implementation easier. I realise this could be tricky though with all that ajax stuff etc. -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://fusesource.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
