Re: freemarker w/ servlets -- access contextRoot

> BTW, why I don't like when frameworks use freemarker.ext.servlet (or
> anything similar) is that it's just a JSP Model-2
> (http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_misc_servlet.html#pgui_misc_servlet_model2)
> hack which should only be used if a Web framework only supports
> Model-2. JSP Model-2 itself is already a dirty hack, so ext.servlet is
> a dirty hack for simulating another dirty hack. But an important point
> of FreeMarker (vs JSP) is exactly that you can just call it with a
> plain Java API, you don't have to forward a HTTP request and put
> information into HTTP request attributes and horrors like that.
>
>> Would it also be worth having the servlet automatically include in
>> the data-model some of the servlet request properties (just like
>> Request, Session, Application implicit objects get added)?
>
> It depends on the philosophy of the web application framework... (Like
> currently I'm working in one that doesn't even expose request
> attributes.)
>

I am interested in what web framework you are using, please share.

Thanks,
David

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