[jsr-314-open] Rename: PDL->VDL

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Simon Lessard <Simon_Lessard at dmr.ca>wrote:

>  Hi Ed & all,
>
> If you're doing this kind of refactoring, then I think you should move the
> new "vdl" package to javax.faces.vdl rather than javax.faces.webapp.vdl. It
> would be better that way since the vdl is not by definition linked to the
> message transport layer (webapp). For example, it would be theoretically
> possible to load a view without being in webapp (assuming the vdl doesn't
> requires accept to a ServletContext) then serve it to the client using
> whatnot technology (assuming that technology has a FacesServlet equivalent).
>

Which is exactly how we use Facelets in Seam...for mail and PDF templates.
We expect to do the same with VDL in the future.

-Dan


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