Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Alistair Young wrote:

>> If Bodington supports servlet includes
>
> that's a function of the servlet container, not bod. I see what  
> you're saying Jon but I just feel I'm being sucked back into bod due  
> to the way it works.

No, I'm trying to help you do your own thing from a Bodington template.  
Honest! You won't be going near Facility.
You won't even need Facility to help you reference your code.

> The cleanest way to implement a sort of taglib - coz that's what  
> you're limited to with the current architecture - loads of "sort ofs"  
> - would be to handle <plugin ... /> tags in a template. Just as I  
> added <localise ... /> tags.

I think it can be done without adding any new tag types to the template DTD.

> JSP are compiled to servlets
> that's just a by product of the spec - no-one uses JSPs as servlets.  
> JSPs were invented to get away from servlets.

JSP was invented to avoid thousands of lines of code like this one;
out.print( "<P>here's another 400 paragraphs of HTML</P>" );
and to provide non-programmers with a less scary route into programming.

Jon