Spikes Of Nothingness - jpublish tag

StringTemplate Renderer for JPublish, a Component this time ;)

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:28:44 GMT

Hi there,

For those of you maintaining JPublish sites developed with Velocity or FreeMarker, using the newly added StringTemplate renderer is not an easy option, especially if those sites are in production. So what can you do if you want to use ST?

Don't worry, you can render StringTemplate syntax in Velocity/FreeMarker driven pages by using the StringTemplate component that I just added to the JPublish component family.

Using it is very simple.

Build the ST Component from SVN and load it in jpublish.xml:

<component-manager>
    <components>
        <component id="JPST" classname="ca.flop.jpublish.components.JPSTComponent">
            <stringtemplate-groups>
                <group name="default" relative-root-dir="/st_content" refresh-interval="15"
                       lexer="org.antlr.stringtemplate.language.DefaultTemplateLexer"/>
                <group name="menus" relative-root-dir="/st_menus"/>
            </stringtemplate-groups>
        </component>
    </components>
</component-manager>

and then use the ST component wherever ST is required, for example in a Velocity page:
$components.JPST.renderPath("menus:main_menu"), the contents of the main_menu.st file will be immediately rendered in-line.

I will add more details in the JPublish Wiki, meanwhile you can find the code and a demo web application in our SVN.

Have fun!
-florin

Reviving JPublish

Wed, 16 May 2007 01:09:29 GMT

This is just a small update to let you know that a bunch of us will revive JPublish and put this trusty framework back where it belongs: in the hand of those who want to have the job done :)

Right now we're in the midst of cleaning the docs, organizing the new space, cleaning the examples and the new code, and obviously: bringing new values to JPublish and teaching this framework new tricks :)

You are all invited to join us and send your feedback.

The code can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/jpublish/

The code, based on JPublish 2.x series, is stable and functional.

Best regards,

simple Tag Cloud component for JPublish

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:49:50 GMT

Wow I can't believe I couldn't post any news all this time. Busy, busy, busy :'( I'll do it today and I am doing it again for those of you using JPublish 2.x for web development.

Today we have tagClouds on the menu ;)

I believe everybody knows what a tagCloud is?! Wikipedia explains that pretty well.

I like a lot the simplicity and the implementation of the tagCloud in Pebble, a wonderful blog framework, written by Simon Brown and I wanted to have something like that for my own web applications I write with JPublish.

I wanted something similar, simple and efficient but designed as a reusable component and this is how I decided to write a new JPublish component called: JPTags, which will allow you to enable tagClouds for any JPublish application. Is a freeware piece of software, still in development but ready to serve ;)

There is also a readme included in the DEMO so you'll find out very quickly how to enable your own tagCloud in your application.

Cheers,
-florin