Re: freemarker w/ servlets -- access contextRoot

Saturday, January 22, 2011, 9:18:32 PM, David Siefert wrote:

>> 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.

It's non-OS in-house stuff...

> Thanks,
> David

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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