Somehow this thread meandered over to tapestry-dev so I'm correcting it with this email..
Using an engine service of some kind (like DirectService) is the best way to do this that I know of. Like James said though, if you are just building a canned email template sort of system Velocity is the best choice. j On 3/16/06, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think you're trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Tapestry > is > for developing *interactive* html/websites. You could easily use Velocity > or some other template engine for a reusable email system. > > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:09 PM > To: tapestry-dev@jakarta.apache.org > Subject: Re: Using tapestry core rendering engine as an email or report > generation engine... > > Numa Schmeder <numa <at> euroconsumers.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to create a library based on tapestry to generate email > > or pdf report. I want to tapestry to generate the html and txt part > > of the email and put them in a mime message using java mail api. > ... > > The ultimate goal would be to have a simple library that use tapestry > > and that could be invoked with or without a web server to create an > > email using tapestry template: > > > > Thanks > > > > Numa > > > > I was wondering if you made any progress on this front. I would like to > use > > tapestry from a service which has no webapp to send HTML emails. > > -sean > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Jesse Kuhnert Tacos/Tapestry, team member/developer Open source based consulting work centered around dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. http://opennotion.com