Re: Using Sitemesh Tags from a Veloticy Template

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:49:37AM -0500, Frank Febbraro wrote:
> I have some custom panels that I developed using Sitemesh
> 
> I include them in my JSP using (for example):
> 
> <page:applyDecorator name="scrollPane">
>     <page:param name="width">300</page:param>
>     <page:param name="height">150</page:param>
> 
>     ....stuff to be in scroll pane....
> 
> </page:applyDecorator>
> 
> On a new project I was considering using Velocity as the UI rendering
> mechanism and I was wondering if it was possible to use these prebuilt
> panels from within a Velocity Template. I would not even mind (too much ;-))
> If I had to rewrite the panels in Velocity. I just dont see anything that
> leads me in the direction of this possiblity.

There is some code in CVS for VelocityDecorator servlets, but AFAIK,
there isn't any code foe page:applydecorator.  Is there a way of grabbing
the contents of a block in velocity?

Cheers,
Scott


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