Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote:
> 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.
Kind of. :-) You're actually just calling a method that'll read a
template with Velocity's tags, and passing a "Context" object (this is a
Velocity object that kinda looks like a Hashtable) from where it'll take
the beans to make the substitutions in the template.
But, you do not have a new servlet created for it, you're just executing
a method in a class.
> are there any sort of visual tools for creating the layout of
> a velocity page?
A Velocity template looks pretty much like plain HTML with some added
syntax for the commmands and variable names. I don't think there's an
environment ready for it, but, as it looks just like plain HTML (with
just some added noise from the commands), Dreamweaver has a chance of
showing them nicely.
Take a look at its page: http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
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