on 1/31/01 1:31 PM, "Mike Haberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This was just announced today. Anyone have info on it?
>
> http://www.bearriver.com/news/article.html?article=janx_released
>
> mike
Thanks Mike!
Yet another company who has a web app framework (well, more like a template
framework) that they developed internally for use on their clients sites and
they want to see it get more outside usage so they make it open source in
order to get some free publicity for their company. I say "template
framework" because it appears to be missing a lot of the things that Turbine
has such as a User system, database abstraction layer and Services
framework.
Looking at it, it is simply a "Lesser JSP", which is essentially a XML tag
based template language. ie: JSP taglibs. I say "Lesser JSP" in that it is
what JSP should have been in that you can't embed Java code in your
templates, only taglibs.
Example:
<if
lhs="&username;"
rhs="admin">
You're the administrator, you can see this.
</if>
IMHO, that syntax is gross. It also requires that you write all your HTML
pages as XHTML and therefore cannot be used as a general purpose template
language like Velocity can be used.
Given that JSP is open source, I don't see a reason to use this code over
JSP.
It is also under a license that *requires* you to contribute your changes
back to open source. JSP and Turbine's license doesn't require that at all.
The most that I could see this in context with Turbine is if someone wanted
to add it as yet another template language to Turbine.
:-)
-jon
------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Search: <http://www.mail-archive.com/turbine%40list.working-dogs.com/>
Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
