RE: [Springframework-developer] Velocity Tools

[Cameron B. <ca...@da...>]

I would be keen for spring to support freemarker in the same way that it
supports velocity.

Currently I been using the webwork2 freemarker servlet, though I would
prefer if it could configure everything from within spring, possibly =
even
creating a webwork2 result type that uses the freemarker integration =
that
spring will provide.

Cameron

> -----Original Message-----
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>  On Behalf Of Darren Davison
> Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 8:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Velocity Tools
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> > In general, I wonder why the Velocity project is moving so=20
> slowly. It=20
> > took them over half a year to move from 1.3.1 RC1 to 1.3.1 final.=20
> > Velocity Tools 1.1 final could easily have been released=20
> last autumn:=20
> > After all, it's just a couple of straightforward, pretty simple=20
> > hellper classes. This definitely doesn't help in terms of=20
> Velocity adoption.
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> you're right.  In fact it has been remarked upon by less kind=20
> people that Velocity is dead.  The site says they are working=20
> on a 1.5 branch but the CVS repository shows very few changes=20
> to any source code in the last year.
>  At the end of the day, it's not a major problem for most=20
> users.  It's a stable tool that does a specific job fairly=20
> well - most of my tests suggest it's still ahead of JSP in=20
> performance terms and the majority of graphic designers (IME)=20
> prefer it to an xml-based sytax.
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> I think though that they may have lost some mindshare (if not some
> developers) to FreeMarker.  On which note, if no-one else is=20
> intending to do it, I'm planning on looking at a FreeMarker=20
> integration along similar lines to the Velocity integration=20
> for Spring 1.1
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> Regards,
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> --
> Darren Davison
> Public Key: http://www.davison.uk.net/key.jsp
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