Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:26, Christian Trutz wrote:
>> In the actual CVS tree there is a incomplete
>> org.apache.velocity.runtime.compile.Compiler class. This class wants to
>> compile a template via BCEL. I think it's better to generate first a java
>> file and then compile this with an usual compiler. What I mean:
>>
>>
>> Velocity file:
>> -----------
>> Hello $foo
>> -----------
>>
>> after "compilation" you get something like this:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> public class CompiledTemplate {
>>
>> public void merge( Context context, Writer writer) {
>>
>> writer.write("Hello ");
>> writer.write( context.get( "foo" ) );
>> }
>> }
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> I disagree, you're going to get into all the nasty problems of
> generating source and compiling the sources in your deployed
> environment.
Indeed. Syntax aside (heh), the compilation phase is one of the
nastiest parts of implementing a JSP engine. Just look at the JSP
portion of Tomcat for an example (and that's not bad code, either).
- Dan
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