[seam-dev] Let me know what you need for a first stab at the PDF/Mail port from Seam 2

[Pete Muir]

On 25 May 2010, at 03:12, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:

> On 2010/05/24 23:22, Pete Muir wrote:
>> Nikolay,
>> 
>> I think it would help people understand your proposal better if you gave an
>> example of your proposed syntax using another templating engine. Perhaps take
>> one of the example emails from Seam2 and rewrite it...
>> 
> 
> See my other email as well for why the templating engine is not the main point,
> but here goes (base is simple.xhtml):
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: Try out Seam!
> 
> Dear #{person.firstname},
> You can try out Seam by visiting http://www.seamframework.org
> 
> Regards
> Peter
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Much simpler and easier on the eyes. Anything besides that (headers,
> attachments) is better handled in code and users should not touch it.
> Since, as you say, people like the facelets templates, you should probably keep
> them in Seam 3, but they are not suitable for editing by users. Greet your user
> with this and they will give up right away....
> 
> <m:message xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>           xmlns:m="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"
>           xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
>           xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">

Ok, this is an interesting point, and one we should try to address.

I also was interested by Clint's point that perhaps we should look at typesafe DSL for writing email messages - that seems like a step forward, rather than a velocity solution which seems like a step backwards to me.