WebMacro and FreeMarker, the two most widely used template systems,
are not proprietary. They are both free, open-source software projects.
http://webmacro.org
Justin
Quoting Kirkdorffer, Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I agree with Dave on this. I've never liked template and proprietary
> solutions. As JSP becomes more wide spread everyone should look at how it
> might be the right solution for their problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
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> > From: David Mossakowski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java
> > Servlet API Technology.
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 1:14 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: templates vs. jsp
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > A lot of energy is put around here into development of template systems,
> > frameworks and such. My question is why not use JSPs? Isn't JSP
> > designed to work with servlets in order to separate the HTML from the
> > logic?
> >
> > In Hardcoding vs. Templates thread someone complained how the templates
> > keep appearing and "require the user to learn proprietary techniques".
> > I totally agree. It makes little sense (even when taking into account
> > that techniques are not proprietary as someone there mentioned but
> > nevertheless they are techniques that need to be learned).
> >
> > Also in the same thread there was the movement toward developing very
> > small scale template solutions by parsing through HTML and looking for
> > <!--#parse block=begin--> or other meaningful tokens.
> >
> > So to sum up:
> > - why go into template world?
> > - why cook up your own little things to do it?
> > - why not JSP?
> >
> > I'm interested in your opinions.
> >
> > dave.
> >
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