RE: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Joel Wiegman
ication for Tapestry, but it does have the capability... -Original Message- From: Fernando Padilla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:56 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: T5: File generation The question I have is on what could you mean by "generate files&q

Re: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Fernando Padilla
The question I have is on what could you mean by "generate files". If you can just have an job to hit a particular url, then you can use tapestry to generate that url. If you want tapestry to programmatically generate a page, that is conceptually possible, and I think I saw some code floating

RE: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Joel Wiegman
ry 29, 2008 10:15 AM To: users@tapestry.apache.org Subject: RE: T5: File generation Tapestry is not the right tool to generate files - we tried this in T4 and failed. T5 is even more component-oriented. Components just don't work well for generating text files. Use Velocity or FreeMark

RE: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Christian Köberl
Tapestry is not the right tool to generate files - we tried this in T4 and failed. T5 is even more component-oriented. Components just don't work well for generating text files. Use Velocity or FreeMarker. Joel Wiegman-2 wrote: > > and velocity has a dependency on Struts. > Velcity has no depe

RE: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Joel Wiegman
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:33 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: T5: File generation You can get a reference to the server-side (dom) document, which will contain generated markup, but I am almost certain that you can't write code like you mentioned (pass a component insta

Re: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Chris Lewis
n of a POJO (might be > Tapestry-annotated, might not). > > -Original Message- > From: Chris Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:59 AM > To: Tapestry users > Subject: Re: T5: File generation > > I'm fuzzy on your goal. What

RE: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Joel Wiegman
Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:59 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: T5: File generation I'm fuzzy on your goal. What 'files' do you want to make? You want the generated markup of a component? A page? For the record, I'm fairly sure T5 is specifica

Re: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Thiago HP
On 2/29/08, Chris Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm fuzzy on your goal. What 'files' do you want to make? You want the > generated markup of a component? A page? Maybe (X)HTML documents, XML, HTML e-mails, other text formats, I guess. Am I right, Joel? -- Thiago --

Re: T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Chris Lewis
I'm fuzzy on your goal. What 'files' do you want to make? You want the generated markup of a component? A page? For the record, I'm fairly sure T5 is specifically designed to avoid semantics like: MyComponent component = new MyComponent(); component.setName("Test"); Components don't 'exist' like

T5: File generation

2008-02-29 Thread Joel Wiegman
Hello all, Our application has the need to generate files. I'm interested in trying to use Tapestry to do this since we're already using T5 on the presentation layer. Has anyone extracted the Tapestry templating engine to do other processing? Something like the pseudo-code below: // BEGIN @In