so velocity is using the same idea of a controller servlet with a "bean" of some sort to actually render a page instead of generating a new servlet for each displayed page? cool.
are there any sort of visual tools for creating the layout of a velocity page? my designers are using dreamweaver to layout jsp's and would want to continue along similar veins if we switched over to a new template engine... rjsjr > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcelo Vanzin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:49 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: alternative jsp compiler? > > > Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote: > > the difference is that a new servlet is actually a "process" (for > > lack of a better term) in the container where the bean would not > > be - it would be invoked from the thread accessing the controller > > servlet. > > BTW, if I understand you correctly, what you're proposing > can be done > easily with a templating engine like Velocity. > > In your action class within Struts, call > "Velocity.merge(bla bla bla)" > (or whatever the method is called), which'll send the data of the > template to te client, and then return null, so that Struts does not do > any further dispatches. > > > > -- > []'s > Marcelo Vanzin > Touch Tecnologia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Life is too short to drink cheap beer" > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
