more work on idp-distribution

[Marvin S. Addison]

> I don't fully understand how views work yet, but I've been wondering
> if the "display login form" action is supposed to be a view or not.

It's the common case that any time you want to show something to the
user it's done by specifying a view-state. You'll probably be paddling
upstream to do anything else.

> I'm not sure I think we should require that much machinery to grok
> just to get a simple page displayed.

The declarative view handling is simple in terms of usage. In terms of
performance I suspect it's competitive with any other method you might
devise in the context of a flow for displaying something to the user.

I'm curious about the interest in Velocity for rendering views. Is it
primarily standardization on one templating system for numerous use
cases (configuration templates was mentioned recently), or are
there other reasons (i.e. performance)?

M