IdPv3 webapp/index.jsp --> views/index.vm?

[Martin Haase]

Scott, Brent,
should I create a Feature Request on this, or is it in the plans anyway?
Martin

Am 09.10.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Brent Putman:
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>
> On 10/8/15 9:50 AM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>> On 10/8/15, 4:41 AM, "users on behalf of Martin Haase" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of Martin.Haase at DAASI.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear team,
>>> I have response from our designer that it is quite impractical to
>>> maintain both the new views/*.vm templates and the webapp/index.jsp
>>> which shows up when calling /idp/. Any chance the latter can be
>>> relalized using velocity templates as well, and having really all GUI
>>> stuff under /views?
>> Seems like it would be quite ugly to pull off. We'd probably have to embed use of the Velocity engine inside a JSP page or in a servlet mounted there.
>
> Fwiw, I have actually used Velocity to render content inside a JSP. 
> My case was a custom tag to represent a particular kind of object,
> where I also needed to generate the same HTML fragments outside of JSP
> anyway.  This seems easier actually.
>
> But honestly, I probably wouldn't do it either of those ways.  I'd
> just add additional servlet mapping(s) for the MVC DispatcherServlet
> and just do it as a simple controller + (Velocity) view.  Unless
> there's something about our setup that would make that hard, but
> off-hand I don't know of anything.
>
>
>

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