Impressed with Velocity
I’ve been trying some things out with Velocity. I’ve got a little tool to track some numbers at work and I was going to slap a jsp frontend on there. I’m glad I stumbled across Velocity just before I got to that stage. It’s so useful and easy. The best thing I find about it is that my code is totally compiled and deployed. I can edit the template and no recompilation of source or bouncing the server is required. As easy as a quick refresh in the browser. All I have to do is get the data to the Context and after that I can then “switch brains” over to web design mode and design the frontend I want, editing layout, formatting all without having to recompile anything. I’m also trying out Resin as well, so if I do need to update my Java src, I can update it and Resin quickly autocompiles it for me when I refresh the browser. This makes for really fast development. Gotta thank Parki for telling me about Resin.