This is quite offtopic on this mailing list:

> If you can afford yourself to switch template
> engines, you could go with FreeMarker.

Sorry, I have looked at Freemarker, but I like Velocity more.

> It can use any JSP taglib out of the box

Yes, and there is Veltag library also, but I don't like to use several
templating languages in same file, and I hate tag libraries.

> this means OSCache and SiteMesh taglibs as well

I can get this to work with Velocity too - JSP-decorator (+ maybe
OSCache tags) and Velocity content (+ maybe OSCache filter).

> inside templates. No need to repeat taglib-like
> code in a separate plumbing layer for the template
> engine...

What taglib code? WebWork's? I have never used it, and never will.

> Chris Nockleberg - FreeMarker developer who
> appears here from time to time - is working
> on a FreeMarker-WebWork integration. I don't
> know how far did he get with that, but if
> he's listening maybe he could give us an update.

That's great news. I once tried Freemarker (maybe it was 2.1) but then I
thought that it was not mature enough and I had some problems with
Freemarker Servlet (that you then fixed very fast when I reported - the
problem with mapping the freemarker files with *.ftl - it worked only
with /somedir/*). I have built a foundation for our webapps that allows
you to use XSLT, Domify, DVSL, Freemarker, Velocity, Perl, FOP and
Betwixt as view technologies. I just personally prefer Velocity.

What comes to SiteMesh and OSCache's Velocity macro support (and maybe
some Velocity tools), I really appreciate that work whoever does it -
maybe it's me when I get some time to look at it but for now I cannot
give any promises as I'm quite busy with an application that has nothing
related to web.



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