RE: 2.0 (2.1?) release update...

Go Marc go! And others...

I have to little experience & time to help you all building WM (except for
the small adjustments send earlier).

But I really like the idea's and solutions described below.

Greetings Mike

Don't let WM <code>die;</code>


PS. If I find the time I will try to install the latest WM version on my PC.


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Namens Marc Palmer
Verzonden: donderdag 14 juli 2005 11:02
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: [WebMacro-user] 2.0 (2.1?) release update...


Guys,

FYI I have downloaded, built and used the latest WebMacro in a basic test
app and nothing fundamental seems broken. Has anybody else done this?

A quick update on the JSP and WM stuff that I have done but is not
comitted yet because of the pending release, which I think is 2.0 :) and
this new stuff should go in 2.1:

* I have modified my local WM build to include an org.webmacro.adapters
package, and beneath this are "jsp" and "spring" packages. 

* I have modified the build.xml to build everything (requires addition
jsp-api.jar and spring.jar in /lib, which I have done) but webmacro.jar
produced does not contain these adapters, they are put into a new
webmacro-adapters.jar

* The JSP code is pending some refinements I'm discussing with Keats. If
anybody on the dev list has an interest in this we can discuss it there.
So shout if you care! It's important to remember that this can does not
have to be our final iteration of this by any means.

* The Spring MVC code is in and working, in that you can use WebMacro as a
Spring view. I suppose we need to get an example in there, but I'm not so
sure because it's useless to you unless you use Spring already, and if you
use Spring already there's nothing new to learn. A little bit of docs on
how to use config the WebMacroViewResolver in the Spring bean config will
be needed though, which I will of course supply.

* I have one issue to look into with the Spring stuff which is how to ship
the utility macros in spring.wm inside the webmacro-adapters.jar but have
it easily accessible on the template path to WM templates used by the
spring view. Anybody have any clues? In my opinion this is another area
where the limitations of the broker/WM configuration mechanisms come to
haunt us. 


I intend to blog the info about the new Spring/JSP stuff, and to blog the
release of 2.0 when it is done. We need to raise WM's profile again as the
superior templating language that it is!

For 3.0 I firmly believe that what we need to do is:

* Refactor the whole Broker mechanism in favour of a standard
runtime-configurable bean-based approach. This will mean that WM can be
configured from "Inversion of Control" / "Dependency Injection" bean
containers such as Spring and Pico. It will also make WM -much- easier to
use and configure. i.e. we should be able to do something like:

   WMConfig config = new WMConfig();
   config.getTemplateLoaders().add( myCachingTemplateLoader);
   config.getContextToolFactories().add( myFactory);

* Remove any and all singleton classes in favour of configurable bean
instances retrieved from a configuration object.

* Develop and ship more helpers and macros, including a wrapper (if
necessary) for the large number of velocity tools / VelociMacros out there
if possible. Why not leverage their hard work :)

Kind regards,
Marc



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