RE: Re: [Jwebmail-devel] How to help?

[GCS <gcs...@us...>]

>> Maybe we should use velocity templates?
>
> I'll check that out. Haven't heard about it before.
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/index.html

>> Ehh? Which part? Ok, I am outdated in Cocoon.
>
> The XML scripting part. XSP?
 Aha. eXtensible Server Pages. It looks good, I even managed to make
a small xsp page in the early Cocoon 2.0. It required a lot of
definition in sitemap.xmap (serialisers, transformers, ...) and
perfectly matching jars in WEB-INF/lib, so it was a bit hard to achieve
what you wanted. Anyway, this technology sounds very good, it would be
good to check out it's status in Cocoon 2.1-dev. AFAICR it contains
i18n too, and easier to maintain. So we should not need templates for
every language, but for only one. The messages could be translated
easily without the XSL being in the way; still JWebmail could use
XML based technologies inside.

> Just tested it out. It has a long way to go IMO.
 Bugs, featureless, or both?

> Speaking of which, did my one and only patch (reply) ever get checked out?
> It restructed the message slightly class to be neater in some places.
 Clearly my fault, I was more in trying to fix bugs than changes. I am
sorry, I should have checked it out already. :-(

Cheers,
GCS