On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Justin Wells wrote:
> Hi Alex, many of your comments about WebMacro were not accurate:
>....
> This is misleading. WebMacro uses the reflection API to analyze your
> class exactly once for each class, and then caches that data for the
> life of your servlet environment.
>
> This is the same approach Sun takes with JavaBeans, and is remarkably
> efficient.
True; testing in our lightweight application server its embeded template
engine - the speed of calling methods using reflection is within the same
range as using hashtable lookups for "$foo" names to fill the template.
Retrieving a Method object given its name, class and arguments is the most
expensive part. That's why it is cached.
> ...
> <table>
> #foreach $thing in $list {
> <tr><td>$thing.Name</td><td>$thing.Description</td></tr>
> }
> </table>
>...
In this example is a $thing that should be interpreted as a variable.
What about something following example without $things or {braces}:
<ShowList DS=list>
<tr><td>#list.name#</td><td>#list.Description#</td>
</ShowList>
(DS option within ShowList tag stands for "Data Source" - is used to find
the data source, wich is a sort of iterator)
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regards,
Cezar Totth
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