Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

> You won't be going near Facility.
I know Jon but I'll be going somewhere I don't want to go - half  
hidden servlets - that's not what servlets are designed for.

> I think it can be done without adding any new tag types to the  
> template DTD
and I think it can ... just different ways of looking at the problem.  
My view is influenced by JSPs/taglibs,your's by bod internals.

> out.print( "<P>here's another 400 paragraphs of HTML</P>" );
that's how bod works though!

I don't think I'm getting anywhere now although it's been an  
interesting ride getting there.

Alistair


On 23 Mar 2006, at 14:13, Jon Maber wrote:

> 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
>
>
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