Ah! As ever helpful :) I have already been able to build a tiny prototype showing the feasability of the approach, and I forsee usefulness for the ResourceFinders when integrating with my existing code ^_^
Thanks for this shove in the right direction! 2007/1/30, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Christian, quick answer, yes. Just use TemplateFactory.<TEMPLATETYPE> to instantiate them. The ENGINE* versions will not work though since there's no web engine context to evaluate them in, which is normal. Best regards, Geert On 30 Jan 2007, at 17:35, Christian Vest Hansen wrote: > Hi Geert. > > At my work place, we're facing the challenge of having to generate > Jasper report files (.jrxml files) on the fly based on various > parameters. > > The report files are so painful and inhumane to work with that I'll > refrain from describing it in further detail here. > > So we came up the idea of using a template engine to generate these > files - trick in this approach is that the oddities in the jrxml files > will be handled programatically by our "template controller", and > enabling us to let a user decide what columns he want to see in the > report using some (web) interface. > > Now, that may sound confusing (and it is), but we're confident that we > can make it work; *provided* we find a template engine that is: > * support template composition or inheritence (like the one in RIFE, > hence this mail) > * easy to pick up and use > * and dosn't inforce an application architecture or other kinds nasty > constraints. > > Now, most template engines are specialised to build web pages. This is > not an inherent problem since we will be generating XML anyway. > However; it is important that we can somehow conrtol it - library > style, rather than framework style. For instance, if the template > engine is tightly coupled with the servlet-api, or some such > ballchain, then it will likely be a no-go for us. > > > So here's the question (at last): > Can I with relative ease use just the template engine from RIFE, > without having the full package forced down my throad? > Or even better; can I rip it out of RIFE and put it in a JAR for it > self? > > > -- > Venlig hilsen / Kind regards, > Christian Vest Hansen. > _______________________________________________ > Rife-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users > -- Geert Bevin Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org Music and words - http://gbevin.com _______________________________________________ Rife-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users
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