Re: HTML table API

As a completely unqualified data point, most folks who use Freemarker 
prefer it to Velocity...

As for JSP, I'm currently using JSF+Facelets (with Seam) and I will 
never -- evereverever -- go back to JSP with Struts/Tiles...

-CB

Erik Hatcher wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't mean to reply about Velocity off-list (darn those lists 
> that said Reply-To sender)...
> 
> The primary differences between Velocity and JSP is that Velocity is not 
> tied to a servlet container and templates don't have to be built into a 
> WAR structure.  Velocity is a standalone templating library, so you can 
> use it in any Java app, to say, template e-mails*.
> 
>     Erik
> 
> * http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/12/16/velocity.html
> 
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
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