2011/10/16 Nicolas LE BAS <[email protected]> > After playing around a bit with Tiles 3.0 (from trunk), I think it comes > pretty close to the mark. By using custom renderers and a custom Request > class, I can include my foreign content into my webapp and run the container > outside of a servlet environment... >
I think that you don't even need custom renderers at all. JSP will never run outside of a servlet container of course, but freemarker > and velocity should. Except I believe the way they are implemented in tiles > forces the use of servlets. Am I wrong (that would be wonderful)? > Current implementation of Freemarker[1] and Velocity[2] support are tightly bound to the servlet environment, but it's not a Tiles fault. However you are pretty lucky, since Tiles 3 generates code automatically from the "tiles-template" project [3] through the Autotag subproject [4]. > > Would it take a lot to refactor the servlet api out of tiles-freemarker and > tiles-velocity ? It seems to me that very few classes would be impacted. Of > course, the configuration would be entirely different. > > I think you need only to create your version of "tiles-autotag-freemarker-runtime" [5] or "tiles-autotag-velocity-runtime" [6] to remove dependencies to servlets. HTH Antonio [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk/tiles-parent/tiles-freemarker/ [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk/tiles-parent/tiles-velocity/ [3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk/tiles-parent/tiles-template/ [4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk/tiles-autotag/ [5] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk/tiles-autotag/tiles-autotag-freemarker-runtime/ [6] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk/tiles-autotag/tiles-autotag-velocity-runtime/
