Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:59, John Trollinger wrote: > >> Don't buy all the velocity hype.. It is not as great as they make it out >> to be. > > What hype? I don't follow here... > > Velocity is just a template language, plain, simple and relatively > small. It's "greatness" comes from the fact that you cannot do things in ...
And Velocity does have a mailing list where all this can be discussed. This is tomcat-dev - for servlet and jsp development. If you have any ideas on how to improve jasper - great, but please don't waste our time with off topic subjects. Comments and sugestions on JSP spec can be addressed to the feedback address from Sun, we just implement it. ( and BTW, nobody forces you to use any java inside the JSP if you don't want to, or any of the features that are specific to jsps. ) Costin ( who enjoys writing java inside jsps, and thinks web applications _are_ programs, regardless of what other people claim ). > it, not from that fact that you can. Other template languages might be > as good or better, wouldn't know, but given that Velocity is a Jakarta > project, it seemed like a reasonable suggestion to me. And it certainly > does the job for me. I don't see why would sharing a good experience > with someone qualify as hype. > > But all that is actually beside the point. The point is that you don't > want your web designers to touch Java code, ever. Making web pages > programs, with access into depths of you JVM, is what the initial > problem with JSP's actually is. > >> Please no flames from the velocity disiples as I will not respond. > > Why do you think anyone from Velocity crowd would flame you? I found > most users and developers to be helpful and constructive. They certainly > helped me switch from JSP's in no time at all. > > Bojan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>