Scope
user generated templates
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User generated documents should use a template engine. Candidates to choose from include:
Server Side Engine
| Name | Reflection | LastRelease | Version | License | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StringTemplate | yes | Jan 4, 2013 | 4.0.7 | Apache License 2.0 | ||
| Freemarker | yes | Feb 29, 2012 | 2.3.19 | BSD-style license | ||
| Velocity | yes | Nov 29, 2010 | 1.7 | Apache License 2.0 | ||
| moustache.java | yes | May 06, 2013 | 0.8.12 | Apache License 2.0 | Mustache.java is a Java 6 implementation of the mustache language used by Netflix and Twitter | |
| Thymeleaf | yes | |||||
| Jamon | Dec 20, 2011 | 2.4.1 | Mozilla Public License | |||
| Tea | ||||||
| Xtend | Jun 26, 2013 | 2.4.2 | Eclipse Public License | |||
| Cambridge | "upcoming" | 0.9 | Mailinglist not active since Aug 01 2012 | |||
| MVEL | Sep 18, 2012 | 2.1.3 | Apache License 2.0 |
- Velocity
- the most well known one, but there is probably better / more up-to-date meanwhile
- FreeMarker
- may be the 2nd most well known one?
- StringTemplate
- by someone who knows a thing or two about how to write a parser.. despite using System.exit() in them
(related Google+ post)
- by someone who knows a thing or two about how to write a parser.. despite using System.exit() in them
- Xtend Template Expressions
- I know it looks static / compile-time, but Michael should be able to put together an example using this in "interpreted" mode, if interested
- very very strong static typing Eclipse tooling - but that's not our use case
- Jamon
- ?
- Google Closure Templates (Soy)
- could run client-side (JS) - although not sure it make sense to exploit this in Mifos
- Eclipse Editor available - not our use case, just sayin'
- Cambridge
- HTML specific? It "supports Servlets, JAX-RS, Play (Spring later)" - unclear - what does that have to do with templating?
- duel
- could run client-side (JS) - although not sure it make sense to exploit this in Mifos
- probably
similar to Closure? Better pick a more well known one? It is interesting, double check project background/activity
- jsilver
- dead?
- Other ones? List above is just compiled from stuff Michael bookmarked on delicious over the years.. may be I missed the one best for us.
TODO Read up.. learn about features.. compare them (blog?)... pick one!
Services (internal)
TemplateDomainService
CRUD and persistance specific functions
TemplateMergeService
Merge data representation into template and return
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