Re: HTML table API

One respondent suggested Velocity (see below).

 From the example given it looks to me like Velocity is used much the same way 
as JSP is used.  I am already familiar with JSP.  Is Velocity better than JSP 
for some reason?

Thanks,
Rich Hammer

One (who responded to only me and who may prefer anonymity) wrote:
> How about Velocity?
> 
> <table>
> #foreach($obj in $objects)
>   <tr>
>     <td>$obj.property</td>
>   </tr>
> #end
> </table>
> 
> I much prefer a templating approach to HTML generation than a 
> programmatic one.  Seeing out.writeln('<div>') in JavaScript smells bad 
> to me, for example - same would go for Java.
> 


> On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> 
>> I am starting to write a class to represent an HTML table being 
>> generated in my Java code.  Surely this has been done many times 
>> before.  But I guess I'm not Googling right.
>>
>> I want to create an HTML table (a String of HTML output) in my Java 
>> code.  Can someone recommend an API that does this.