more work on idp-distribution

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/23/13 5:02 PM, "Marvin S. Addison" <marvin.addison at gmail.com> wrote:

>Using velocity for the view rendering facility is new ground for me, but
>I wouldn't be surprised if they provide a number of conveniences to
>simplify loading view templates in the common case (classpath resources
>and below WEB-INF). I understand you want to load them from filesystem
>resources, which in the context of rendering views from webflow states
>would be uncommon. Hopefully the extension points to provide custom
>behavior are clear and not too troublesome.

I think that appears to be supported out of the box, but now I'm left with
the main concern I have to using views which is that I think you sort of
need a model to do that, don't you?

I don't think there's any other way to get data into the Velocity engine
context for use by the template except by feeding it a model. Not sure how
cleanly that will work when I don't really have a model. I guess it won't,
and I have to actually build one. Yuck.

-- Scott