Re: [WebMacro-user] WebMacro and Spring Framework

[Hai-Chen Tu <hc...@op...>]

Hi Lane,
         Two key Spring developers are Rod Johnson and
         Juergen Hoeller. I am reading Rod's book
                 "Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB"
         and it includes his contact address as "ex...@in...".
         You can also go http://forum.springframework.org to contact
         them through Spring's forum.

         You are correct saying that it is trivial to add WebMacro hook to
         Spring -- Spring JavaDoc shows just three Velocity-related files.
         I also believe that by adding a WebMacro hook to Spring will 
certainly
         increase WebMacro's popularity. This is also because the Spring
         download package includes jar files of many third-party open source
         packages that gives developers a one-stop-shopping experience.
         Bundling WebMacro with Spring will certainly give WebMacro a nice
         marketing push. (BTW, don't forget to ask them to add a section on
         WebMacro in Spring's reference manual. It will also be nice someone
         can put one good WebMacro-Spring example on their web site.
         Currently they only have a well-written step-by-step Web example
         using JSP w. Tomcat.)

Hai-Chen Tu

At 06:11 PM 9/21/2004, Lane Sharman wrote:
>Hi Hai,
>
>If you give me a good contact at Spring, I will work to engage somebody to 
>develop the hook.
>
>Generally, it is trivial to add a template system, once 2 or more are 
>already supported.
>
>Regardless of the loss of popularity, WebMacro is a fine solution for 
>applications and, because Velocity is a copy-cat, you can always migrate 
>to Velocity if you feel there are not enough warm bodies in the WM bar.
>
>-Lane
>
>Hai-Chen Tu wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>     I have been using WebMacro for three years already
>>     and have developed two ASP services using it. It goes
>>     without saying that I am a happy user of WebMacro.
>>
>>     Lately I have been learning the Sping Framework and am
>>     quite impressed with its lightweight framework architecture.
>>     With Spring, one can hook it up with a long list of Open Source
>>     packages ranging from database layer to web layer. It also
>>     provides its own MVC structure as an alternative to Struts.
>>     Unfortunately,  when I did a quick browse of what front-end
>>     packages it supports, I found it only supports JSP, Velocity, and
>>     Free Maker, but not WebMacro. I don't know enough about
>>     Spring to say how much effort it will take to add a WebMacro hook
>>     to Spring and my guess is that it should not be too difficult,
>>     especially it has done the hook with Velocity already.
>>     Anyway, I would like to suggest that the WebMacro team can
>>     evaluate such an effort and actively engage with the Sprint team
>>     to develop such a hook in Spring.
>>
>>     I firmly believe that Spring is going to be a strong force reshaping
>>     how Java software to be developed and WebMacro should not miss
>>     the boat.
>>
>>Hai-Chen Tu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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