Tiles / Velocity / Others

[foxmask]

Hi,
when i post messages about Tiles and never see any answer (made 5threads and one suggestion as answer) i'm asking myself if tiles is used or not, or if some of you use template engine...

could you tell me what template engine you use and why ?

as i'm a big big noob i search the better way to find help when i need help, and when i see no activity arround my questions, i'm talking to me, tiles seems to be not very well liked/supported.

so i'm ready to use another template engine if you think its better for me ;)


regards.

[codagtr]

This may sound pretty uninspired, but I use tiles simply because I'm transitioning from Struts. I haven't used Velocity for web pages yet simply because I haven't had the chance, but I have used it for other templates (e-mail, and a dynamic Jasper Report).

However, I did get to make a couple of web sites with Sitemesh (http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/) and I can't wait to use it again.

[zorak]

I use Sitemesh for new projects, although you cannot really directly compare Sitemesh and Tiles.

[jdubchak]

I use Tiles. There are a number of reasons why, but one of the biggest ones is my familarity with tiles from Struts.

Another reason is that I haven't given Velocity enough time and attention to get familar with their unique markup, #var#, which I find unintuitive, at least for me, when developing an included jsp fragment.

To me, tiles just seems less intrusive in that its all declarative with the exception of marked up tiles:insert custom tags.

Cleaner and simpler.

In fairness though, I've heard a great many positive things about sitemesh and have yet to investigate that.

Regards,
John