Nathan,
I briefly looked into using jsp for email templating recently, and decided that it was not the right fit for the task in my situation.
Instead I ended up building a basic template merge facility using Velocity, and a mail sender facility based on JavaMail. I tied them together with a thin service layer in my webapp that is configurable and dead simple to invoke.
Using Velocity also allowed me to easily extend the system to include a web-based template manager and editor to allow users to create templates and verify them (preview) online.
Some of the advantages I found were:
- reasonably simple to build for basic merge/send
- easy to unit test in isolation (no dependencies on web container, jsp compiler)
- equally usable within a webapp or in a stand-alone app or script
- template authoring easily understood by non-programmers
The merger and sender are also independently unit tested with basic JUnit test cases.
It may be worth considering in your case as well.
- Ken
On Nov 25, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Jason Lea wrote:
Nathan Coast wrote:
I have used Jelly (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/) for this purpose. You can use JSTL/EL so it looks like a JSP page. Look at using Jelly Embedded (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/tutorial.html#embeddingjelly)Hi,
Is there any way to generate content that isn't written to the ServletResponse? I'd like to use jsp / struts to generate html emails.
something like this: 1) user clicks 'generate email' button. 2) struts action sets up parameters and identifies recipients. 3) delegate to a jsp to create the html email content. 4) trap the content (don't return to the user) and send as an email. 5) return a message to user confirming email has been sent.
is this possible without having to re-invent a servlet container :)
thanks Nathan
-- Jason Lea
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