On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Biesbrock, Kevin wrote: > So I have a block of contact information that we would like to appear > similarly whenever it's displayed. So on our home page, on a printable > confirmation page, or in a generated email -- it should always appear the > same. Yesterday I emailed this group about this a little bit (and forgot to > mention the context in this email), titled: 'Reading .properties From > Top-Level Package'. Eric Lents suggested: > >> E-mail and Velocity are like peanut butter and jelly. > > So I found documentation on how to compile a Velocity template in a java > class but cannot find anything that would show my e.g. contact block on the > homepage. So I thought *maybe* the best approach would be to use an s:action > tag that returned a Velocity result of the template I requested. > > In terms of my email, I can use Velocity to generate the email with no > problem -- and can even include, toward the bottom, the contact block. > > Does that help identify my use-case a little more clearly?
Yep. Do the templates use the same models as the web layer? If so, seems like direct rendering would be *much* more efficient. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
