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From: "elephantwalker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
> [...]
> Does anybody has some insight on the "why" of the j2ee blueprint
templating
> mechanism? Or for that matter, any procedural templating mechanism?
IMO it is just to make the customer think he needs experienced
developers to implement simple things and to assure noone else will be
able to maintain your application in the future :)
Of course it would be nice to have an uniform screen layout which
requires only minimal effort when you decide to redesign apperance of
all app pages, but:
- I don't think the effort to implement such mechanism pays back (I do
agree that standard include mechanism is flexible enough for that
purpose),
- when these changes have to be done by someone else than the autor,
he's probably going to need more time to understand the design than to
change each page individually with classic include mechanism.
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Regards,
Rafal
