Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n res updated : fixed

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Alexis O'Connor wrote:
> Alistair Young wrote:
> 
>>> If not then we
>>> are changing Bodington so that it is no longer possible to deploy on a
>>> machine without a JDK.
>>
>>
>> yep. that's bod though. What other web application *compiles* it's own
>> pages? Don't you need a JDK anyway? What happens when XmlTemplate decides
>> the class file is out of date and tries to recompile the template?
>>
>> By allowing the absence of the JDK you're telling users "you may never
>> customise your templates".

Yep. But if we are trying to make it easy for people to try Bodington I 
think this is acceptable.

> Funnily enough I agree with Alistair on this one ;-). Requiring a JDK is 
> reasonable enough for these very reasons.

If we are going to say people need a JDK this needs to be well 
documentation and Bodington needs to have a very clear error message 
when you try to run it on a machine without one (not a stack trace).

I still think we should run without a JDK if they want too, especially 
with the quickstart WAR.

> It would be cool if we could get the Eclipse JDT compiler of Tomcat 5.5 
> to compile Bodington templates.

Indeed.

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