> Nick Bauman wrote:
>
>> As far as mixing presentation logic and business logic together, well,
>> you can do that with Velocity, too. Although it makes you think longer
>> and harder about it. Here's a recent template snippet I wrote. This is
>> something you wouldn't necessarily be proud of doing with Velocity.
>>
>> ----8<----
>>
>> #foreach( $event in $events )
>> $yapper = $meeting.getParticipation(
>> ((MeetingEvent)$event).getFromId() ) #if(
>> $repRole.equals($yapper.getRole() )
>> $repId = $yapper.getParticipantId()
>> <font color="$black"><b>$yapper.getName()</b></font>
>> #else
>> <font color="$blue"><b>$yapper.getName()</b></font>
>> #end
>> #if ( $event.getClass().getName().equals($chatEventType) )
>> ((com.webhelp.emeeting.events.ChatEvent)$event).getStoredData()
>> <br>
>> #else if( $event.getClass().getName().equals($urlPushedEventType) )
>> <a
>> href="((com.webhelp.emeeting.events.URLPushedEvent)$event).getStoredData
()">((com.webhelp.emeeting.events.URLPushedEvent)$event).getStoredData()
</a><br>
>> #end
>> #end
>
> Just out of idle curiousity, why does it look like you are attempting
> to do a cast with the
>
> ((com.webhelp.emeeting.events.URLPushedEvent) $event )
>
> bit?
>
> Velocity has no such thing as a cast... -> it will introspect and find
> getStoredData() on it's own...
Yeah, I'd discovered that later.... Very cool!
> And for fun, can someone translate that into JSP tags to see what it
> would look like?
I can show you the JSP because this thing started as JSP once. Not pretty,
but a Java developer would feel at home, thats about all I could say
positive about it ;)
> geir
>
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