on 2/9/00 7:17 AM, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> jon * wrote:
> 
>> Actually yes. I just haven't had time to write it up yet. Essentially, my
>> feeling is that execute needs to be able to take an object. execute(Object
>> obj). I need to explain this reason in detail, but just haven't had the time
>> yet. 
> 
> I agree on the execute(Object).  But I think Brett is against it.  I've
> been doing some
> work with Webmacro and want to make it available to Turbine via a
> Service. It would
> be nice to have the execute(Object)to pass the RunData object on to
> Webmacro.

Yes. Exactly my feeling as well and same reasoning. I want to do the same
with John's Freemarker stuff.

> As a side note: The solid integration of a scripting engine like
> (Webmacro/Freemarker) with
> Turbine will be the absoulute killer!  The ONLY reservations I can see
> some folks having with
> Turbine is the HTML coding.  That worked out with Webmacro/Freemarker,
> and you can turn the "pretty"
> stuff over to the page authors. At that point, why the HELL would you
> ever need to buy a Servlet
> Framework! 

bingo. ;-)

> I'm starting to think that OPL is __KEY__ to finalizing the 1.0 version
> of Turbine.

That and well thought out and implemented Freemarker/Webmacro support.

-jon

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