Re: SiteMesh 2.0.1 rocks! :)

I've already started on getting the Velocity support ready, based on 
some code that Victor wrote a year or three back. However realistically 
it could be a while before I get the time to finish cleaning it up so 
Mike if you do have time this week then drop me a line and I'll send 
through what I have so far. Also note that this code doesn't solve 
SIM-18, so maybe you could look at that one first?

Joe Walnes wsa talking about writing a JFlexParser. This has the 
potential to be a LOT faster than the current FastPageParser, so I'm 
quite looking forward to seeing this. Failing a JFlexParser, then I've 
also got some ideas to make FastPageParser maybe 2-3x faster still, plus 
almost completely eliminate all the (currently quite large) temporary 
memory useage while parsing. This will take a lot of work however (it'll 
be bordering on a complete rewrite) so I'm a bit reluctant to start that 
until we know how fast/efficient the JFlexParser implementation will be.

One final thing we should look into. Lately I've seen quite a few posts 
on various mailing lists and blogs by people stating that they prefer 
Tiles over Sitemesh. Does anyone know what Tiles can do that Sitemesh 
can't. Struts integration? (whatever that might mean). Perhaps it just 
comes down to a lack of documentation? We should try to find out where 
the (perceived?) problems are and address them with code and/or docs.

Chris

Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Just letting you know that I've tried SiteMesh 2.0.1 in our apps here
> (upgraded from 1.5.x.CVS.sometime.built) and it's rocking. Definitely feels
> faster and I haven't encountered any problems yet.
> 
> Congrats to Hani, Chris, Patrick, Mathias and anyone else who worked on it.
> 
> If I find time this week, I'm going to try to work on SIM-62 and SIM-18,
> basically Velocity support for directives (ie #decorator) and also the
> ability to make decorators in Velocity (currently the only JSP files in
> Confluence are the decorators :)).
> 
> I guess these will go into SiteMesh 2.1? Do we have any other major items
> planned for this release?
> 
> Also, I think we should add an i18n support page to the website - listing
> exactly which containers support Sitemesh+i18n flawlessly (I know Resin has
> some issues still)?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike 
> 
> 
> 
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