Re: Anybody with deeper OSGi bundle can comment on freemarker.jar OSGification?

Monday, June 3, 2013, 1:21:04 AM, Angelo zerr wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> @Daniel : for OSGi topic, it seems your bnd is good. We use
> Freemarker with XDocReport which is Java reporting tool (you design
> your report with MS Word or OpenOffice and you use
> Velocity/Freemarker syntax to replace simple, list value) and
> generate docx or odt report (and convert it with PDF or XHTML)
> (Daniel, you can add XDocReport to the Powered By if you are agree,
> thank's!).

Sure. You should provide a project description, less than 250
characters.

Any ideas that would make FreeMarker a better fit for these kind of
templates that you enter right into Word/LO?

> We have an Eclipse RCP/RAP demo (which works on OSGi
> context) and in this demo we use the com.springsource.freemarker
> bundles and the MANIFEST.MF looks like your bnd. 
>
> It's out of scope of this post, but I think it should really cool if
> Freemarker could be hosted on the central maven repository (like
> springsource have done). Many project uses Maven (we use it in
> XDocReport) and I could simply switch to the "official" Freemarker
> dependency.

But it's on the Central Maven Repository for a long time. Or what do
you mean?

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
  <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
  <version>...</version>
</dependency>

> @Debugging feature : I think today Freemarker is very mature and
> stable, but I think tooling about Freemarker misses.

Yes, better tooling would mean a lot to FreeMarker. I was rather
unhappy about all that happened with your work on the DLTK plugin due
to the cancelling of FM3.

> It exists a JBoss Freemarker plugins but I think we can do better
> than this plugin like managing debugger, preview, etc. I had started
> this work with Eclipse DLTK at
> http://sourceforge.net/p/freemarker/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/org.eclipse.dltk.freemarker/
> You can see doc at
> http://sourceforge.net/p/freemarker/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/org.eclipse.dltk.freemarker/docs/
> and for debug I have used the Debugger Freemarker to manage DBGP protocol.
>
> But I have gaven my work because of the Freemarker parser which is
> not tolerant (it crashes as soon as it  finds an error). With editor
> context, parser must be tolerant (to build an AST even if there are errors).

Was that also a problem with FM 3? Anyway, if you still want to work
on that plugin, we could revive this topic, and then I could do
something about it. Something that this time makes into a release.

> IMHO, I think Freemarker should be improved  for tools support like :
>
>  * manage tolerant parser.
>  * improve debugger (like DBGP debugger).
>
> Regards Angelo

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


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