Re: Emailing response formatted in html

hi gene,

You can do something like this with Velocity if you
wanted. You would write a velocity template to do the
formatting and then use Velocity runtime to process
the template into the body of your email and send from
your model.

http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity

Turbine does this -- here are the key classes
involved:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-turbine-2/src/java/org/apache/turbine/util/velocity/VelocityEmail.java?rev=1.13&view=markup
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-turbine-2/src/java/org/apache/turbine/services/velocity/TurbineVelocityService.java?rev=1.35&view=markup

This would roughly translate into a VelocityMailer
class in svc-mail-javamail and a new velocity service:
svc-template-velocity or something -- unless you can
leverage the existing clnt-velocity somehow.

Or...

You could try using jakarta's element construction set
-- I used this a long time ago. You can use it to
construct markup like HTML using java objects. So you
could create your html email body without actually
writing out the markup yourself, use toString and set
it as the body of your email, and send from your
model.

http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/

The velocity solution is probably more reusable and
elegant but ECS would take you less time.

-Lou

--- Gene McCullough <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anybody have suggestions on emailing the results of
> a model, formatted 
> in html?  Or any other "readable" format for that
> matter?
> 
> what i'm needing to do is schedule a model to run
> (I've figured that 
> part out), and in some form or fashion have the
> results emailed to a 
> list of users (I've figured that part out), but in a
> format that is 
> readily viewable.
> 
> so I guess the proper question is How to go from a
> response object to 
> formatted html without going thru struts and
> returning it to a browser?
> 
> TIA
> gene
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