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arinte
arinte

Reputation: 3728

Java framework that requires fewest change to html/xhtml

We are trying to find a java framework that requires the fewest changes to html/xhtml when we get it from the designer. So far to me it seems Sitebricks is the least intrusive, but it is still in alpha it seems and has been that way for a long time. Wicket seems to come in a pretty close 2nd. JSF, Stripes, and Struts requires a lot, what are we missing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 244

Answers (4)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 1420

You should check out Freemarker.

In fact SiteBricks default rendering engine rely on mvel. But SiteBricks can also support freemarker and others rendering engines.

Velocity is similar to Freemarker but I don't know it.

Upvotes: 2

Nathan Hughes
Nathan Hughes

Reputation: 96434

Tapestry and Wicket are the least html-invasive. They both have the same idea of adding annotations into the html, but not butchering it through replacing every html element with taglibs.

Another framework that featured logic-less html templates was RIFE. I think it stopped being developed a couple years ago, though.

Upvotes: 1

crowne
crowne

Reputation: 8534

Tapestry has always had "very-native" html templates, from what I can remember - I haven't looked at the new version, but I don't expect that to have changed drastically.

Upvotes: 2

Nikita Rybak
Nikita Rybak

Reputation: 68016

What changes exactly require Struts, Spring MVC, JSP? (not familiar with Stripes/JSF) The only required change I can think of is changing file extension from 'html' to 'jsp'. That's all.

Of course, different frameworks require different amount of configuration (which sometimes can be confusing), but that doesn't involve changing html.

Upvotes: 1

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