Re: tiles, sitemesh, velocity and other template engines

[Adam Brin]

Hi Christoph & Łukasz,
  Thanks.  This is useful.  We’ll stay with Sitemesh2 and Freemarker for now.  

thanks,

adam

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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:19 AM, Christoph Nenning 
> <christoph.nenn...@lex-com.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Adam Brin <ab...@digitalantiquity.org>
>> To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org>, 
>> Date: 29.06.2016 07:39
>> Subject: tiles, sitemesh, velocity and other template engines
>> 
>> Hi All,
>>  I've been reviewing our templating implementation (currently 
> sitemesh2)
>> and noticed that it seems  like the three main template engines that
>> Struts2 supports are all effectively unsupported, and implementation of
>> sitemesh 3 (which has been barely updated since it was released seems
>> stalled). What templating engines are others using, and are there
>> alternatives that are better supported?  I wonder / worry about security
>> issues among other things.
>> 
>> *Velocity:*
>> last updated 2010 --
>> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.velocity/velocity/1.7
>> 
>> *Tiles:*
>> last updated 2014 --
>> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tiles/tiles-core
>> 
>> *Sitemesh 2:*
>> Last updated 2009 -- 
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/opensymphony/sitemesh
>> 
>> *Sitemesh 3: *(stalled - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4356)
>> last updated  2015 - 
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.sitemesh/sitemesh
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> adam
>> 
> 
> 
> We use mainly Tiles2 with JSPs. In newer projects we are using Tiles3. 
> There are occasions when we use Freemarker instead of JSP but that is 
> rare.
> 
> I really love the new tiles-annotations that struts provides. With that I 
> can reduce the size of tiles.xml to a minimum and annotate actions instead 
> :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
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Re: tiles, sitemesh, velocity and other template engines

[Christoph Nenning]

> From: Adam Brin <ab...@digitalantiquity.org>
> To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org>, 
> Date: 29.06.2016 07:39
> Subject: tiles, sitemesh, velocity and other template engines
> 
> Hi All,
>   I've been reviewing our templating implementation (currently 
sitemesh2)
> and noticed that it seems  like the three main template engines that
> Struts2 supports are all effectively unsupported, and implementation of
> sitemesh 3 (which has been barely updated since it was released seems
> stalled). What templating engines are others using, and are there
> alternatives that are better supported?  I wonder / worry about security
> issues among other things.
> 
> *Velocity:*
> last updated 2010 --
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.velocity/velocity/1.7
> 
> *Tiles:*
> last updated 2014 --
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tiles/tiles-core
> 
> *Sitemesh 2:*
> Last updated 2009 -- 
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/opensymphony/sitemesh
> 
> *Sitemesh 3: *(stalled - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4356)
> last updated  2015 - 
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.sitemesh/sitemesh
> 
> thanks,
> 
> adam
> 


We use mainly Tiles2 with JSPs. In newer projects we are using Tiles3. 
There are occasions when we use Freemarker instead of JSP but that is 
rare.

I really love the new tiles-annotations that struts provides. With that I 
can reduce the size of tiles.xml to a minimum and annotate actions instead 
:)


Regards,
Christoph

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Re: tiles, sitemesh, velocity and other template engines

[Lukasz Lenart]

2016-06-29 1:37 GMT+02:00 Adam Brin :
> Hi All,
>   I've been reviewing our templating implementation (currently sitemesh2)
> and noticed that it seems  like the three main template engines that
> Struts2 supports are all effectively unsupported, and implementation of
> sitemesh 3 (which has been barely updated since it was released seems
> stalled). What templating engines are others using, and are there
> alternatives that are better supported?  I wonder / worry about security
> issues among other things.
>
> *Velocity:*
> last updated 2010 --
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.velocity/velocity/1.7

I would start thinking about migration to FreeMarker or at least
creating new pages with it

> *Tiles:*
> last updated 2014 --
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tiles/tiles-core

There is nothing to worry about, Tiles are very stable and mature, I
would use it as well in any other Java project

> *Sitemesh 2:*
> Last updated 2009 -- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/opensymphony/sitemesh
>
> *Sitemesh 3: *(stalled - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4356)
> last updated  2015 - http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.sitemesh/sitemesh

I'm still planning to prepare a new plugin with support for Sitemesh
3. When I was working on upgrading to Tiles 3 I also had got limited
support from maintainers but this isn't a problem IMHO :)


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-- 
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tiles, sitemesh, velocity and other template engines

[Adam Brin]

Hi All,
  I've been reviewing our templating implementation (currently sitemesh2)
and noticed that it seems  like the three main template engines that
Struts2 supports are all effectively unsupported, and implementation of
sitemesh 3 (which has been barely updated since it was released seems
stalled). What templating engines are others using, and are there
alternatives that are better supported?  I wonder / worry about security
issues among other things.

*Velocity:*
last updated 2010 --
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.velocity/velocity/1.7

*Tiles:*
last updated 2014 --
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tiles/tiles-core

*Sitemesh 2:*
Last updated 2009 -- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/opensymphony/sitemesh

*Sitemesh 3: *(stalled - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4356)
last updated  2015 - http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.sitemesh/sitemesh

thanks,

adam

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