Re: [Webware-discuss] ST 0.0.2 -- tag transformations

[Arkaitz B. <ar...@eu...>]

On 22 Apr 2001 14:40:08 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> Webmacro has some defense of the server-page design:
>   http://www.webmacro.org/PageDrivenDesign
> 
> I'm not sure exactly where Webmacro is better than the server pages,
> though.

For me the best thing about Webmacro/Velocity is that the template
language is at the same time:
    * Very simple: it has only constructs that are useful for
    presentation tasks.
    * Extendable: You can stick any object in the "context" and the
    template engine will do introspection for you. 
    For example:
        #foreach ($user in $users)
            <tr><td>$user.name<td>$user.surname
        #end
    This will look for getName() and getSurname in the objects of the
    $users list. This kind of stuff is _extremely_ useful and clean.

More interesting stuff about templates vs. JSP/PHP/ASP:
    Jason Hunter - The problems with JSP
        http://www.servlets.com/soapbox/problems-jsp.html
    Jon S. Stevens - YMTD (You Make The Decision):
        http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd.html

Cheers,
Arkaitz.