Re: [Springframework-developer] Final preparations for 1.1 RC1

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

> After giving it some more thought, I've just replaced the
> Velocity/FreeMarkerFormView subclasses with a "exposeSpringMacroHelpers=
"
> property in AbstractTemplateView, inherited by VelocityView and
> FreeMarkerView. This triggers the exposure of a RequestContext instance
> under the name "springMacroRequestContext", as expected by the macros i=
n
> spring.vm and spring.ftl now.
>
> There's a new AbstractTemplateViewResolver that provided
> "exposeRequestAttributes", "exposeSessionAttributes" and
> "exposeSpringMacroHelpers" for all views. I've also added a
> FreeMarkerViewResolver as convenience subclass, as recently suggested b=
y
> Matt Raible.
>
> I've used the term "Spring macros" rather than "form macros" or "bind
> macros", to allow for adding further default macros that do not
> necessarily focus on binding data for forms.
>
> If there aren't any objections, I'm about to commit these changes, as I
> believe they are worth it. Darren, what do you think? Do you maybe have
> the chance to adapt the docs accordingly?

sounds great Juergen - sorry didn't get a chance to look at this and
respond last night, the beer fairy seduced me ;-)

I'll take a look tonight and update ref docs.  When's RC1 going to be
released - Sunday?

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Darren Davison
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