Why not combine Struts with Velocity: http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/struts/
Velocity is really easy to learn and is Dreamweaver-friendly. Don On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:28 -0400, Victor Grazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are developing an important struts application for a major bank, and we > need some advice on methodology... > Our graphic designers are developing the UI in HTML using Dreamweaver and > Notepad. (They are gifted artists, but they don't much know about Struts or > JSTL). > We also have Java developers who are concurrently creating the Struts > pieces. > > Question is - how do you synch up the work of these 2 teams? > One approach would be to give the Java team the html pages and have them > translate the tags to struts. However this becomes difficult to maintain, > because if the graphics team makes a few small changes, the entire page > needs to be retranslated to struts. > > Another approach would be to download a Dreamweaver plugin such as FWA > Visual Struts. We tested that approach and we were actually able to get the > tags to render in Dreamweaver. However the artists always need to view the > pages in MS Internet Explorer before signing off, and since the Java > classes don't exist yet, they can't do that. > > We considered another approach where we would create an XSLT transform to > transform the html pages to a struts equivalent, and embed struts specific > info into the document using some tags that would not be recognizable to > the browser. However this is difficult since there is not really a 1 to 1 > correspondence between tags and attributes. > > Ok, so those were our ideas, none of them great. > So can you give us any advice? > > Thanks, > Victor > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
