Hi Barney!
Yes it looks like there are a lot of choices for templates in Java. I took a
look at several packages, and wound up using the one at www.webmacro.org.
But there were a couple of others that looked pretty good too. There's one
called Enhydra as well, and a couple more, but the webMacro one seemed a bit
closer to what I was looking for.
I thought about using the ECS, and downloaded that too. For my project,
though, I think a template is better. I might use ECS on another project,
though, since I'd like to try it out.
So far the webMacro templates are working out quite well, I've converted
four of my production servlets over to that now, and am enjoying it quite a
bit.
Steve
>From: Barney Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I would strongly suggest using some form of HTML template - you basically
>have a normal HTML file with tags that you replace in your servlet. If
>these are in the form of comments ie <!--REPLACETHISVAL-->,
><!--TITLEHERE--> then you can edit the file in any html editor, and get it
>looking the way you want - in fact other non programmers can edit it too!
>This gives amazing flexibility, no recompiling required to change the
>interface. The code to replace the tags simply loads the html file into
>memory and does a search/replace on the tags you have defined. I haven't
>looked at JSP yet, but I guess this may sound similar - difference is you
>can choose the syntax. For all but the simplest web pages I reckon this is
>a better way to go than the Element Construction Set, which although it
>takes you one step away from raw HTML still ties your interface and code
>together - unless I've misunderstood it.
>
>I have used html templates in C++/Perl - for which are libraries to do
>this for you + extra bells and whistles. Some libraries allow nested
>templates, allowing you to easily generate tables etc. I haven't done any
>servlet programming yet, but I think a package called JForms that may do
>what you require (http://members.xoom.com/jforms/).
>
>I'd be interested to here if there are other java template libraries, and
>what their relative merits are.
>
>barney
>
>On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, jon * wrote:
>
> > > My servlets are getting pretty messy, with HTML all over. What's a
>better
> > > solution? I looked into JSP but I was not impressed with the syntax of
>that.
> > > There must be a better way.
> >
> > Here is another solution...
> >
> > <http://java.apache.org/ecs/>
> >
> > -jon
> >
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