A production release of WebMacro Version 2 has been released. WebMacro is an open source templating system with a small scripting language, and served as the inspiration for Apache's Velocity. It's been quite some time (a few years!) between releases; it's good to see that stable projects are viable and growing as well.
245 Unit Tests have been executed against this release. All tests and source compile and run against JDK 1.4 and 1.5. New features are in this release supporting demanding text applications such as AJAX applications, code generation, and inversion of control.
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WebMacro 2.0, templating system, released (6 messages)
- Posted by: Marcel Huijkman
- Posted on: November 02 2005 02:21 EST
Threaded Messages (6)
- WebMacro versus JSTL? by Andy Grove on November 04 2005 03:23 EST
- WebMacro versus JSTL? by Patrik A on November 04 2005 05:55 EST
- WebMacro versus ProductX by Marcel Huijkman on November 04 2005 07:20 EST
- WebMacro versus ProductX by Juozas Baliuka on November 04 2005 08:45 EST
- WebMacro versus ProductX by Constance Eustace on November 04 2005 03:28 EST
- WebMacro vs FreeMaker by Pepe Puente on November 08 2005 04:11 EST
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WebMacro versus JSTL?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Andy Grove
- Posted on: November 04 2005 03:23 EST
- in response to Marcel Huijkman
I used WebMacro on a project a *long* time ago and found it a pleasure to work with. However, looking at it again now I don't understand the justification for using this compared to JSTL for example. What are the benefits of the WebMacro approach?
Andy Grove
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WebMacro versus JSTL?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Patrik A
- Posted on: November 04 2005 05:55 EST
- in response to Andy Grove
Is there a web-agnostic version of jstl? How about a version of jstl that doesn't, like, suck mondo mango? -
WebMacro versus ProductX[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Marcel Huijkman
- Posted on: November 04 2005 07:20 EST
- in response to Andy Grove
The advantage in favor of Webmacro is that it is a scripting-language and that it can't be manipulated by a non programmer. That is the disadvantage for any solution based on JSP, like JSF, JSTL and so on. Personnaly for me, JSP is the dirtiest thing the Java-community has,but things are going to get better.
If you've got an environment where designers work with stuff you made, you just cannot depends on vocal agreements not to do things. You want to be sure! So that's where a good scripting engine like Webmacro comes in handy. -
WebMacro versus ProductX[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Juozas Baliuka
- Posted on: November 04 2005 08:45 EST
- in response to Marcel Huijkman
BTW WebMacro supports JSP tags better than JSP itself. -
WebMacro versus ProductX[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Constance Eustace
- Posted on: November 04 2005 15:28 EST
- in response to Marcel Huijkman
No one should be shocked to see I totally agree with your criticism of JSP/JSTL/EL.
The EL can't introspect arbitrary object methods, only collections and "beans". Why did they restrict beans? Stupid.
Use this, OGNL (which tapestry uses) or Velocity rather than JSP/JSTL. Unfortunately, JSP and taglibs has much better IDE/tool support. Bummer.
No one has said what this release adds, and if it leapfrogs Apache Velocity. How 'bout a feature list? -
WebMacro vs FreeMaker[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Pepe Puente
- Posted on: November 08 2005 04:11 EST
- in response to Marcel Huijkman
Has anybody enough knowledge on both systems to offer a comparison?