Wiki syntax -Textile- available now in JPublish

Sun, 20 May 2007 20:03:19 GMT

In my recent blog entry I was contemplating adding Wiki support to JPublish. It is available now :)

I decided to add Textile support through JTextile. This is possible now very easy due to the improved support of the new JPublish Component API which I plan to improve even more. RADEOX implementation will follow.

I can say that I am already addicted to this new feature, especially that you can create your pages with smart editors, such as: TextMate, who already understands the Textile syntax and the bundle supplied with TextMate is very valuable.

Let's see how easy is to use the Textile support in JPublish.

1. download and build our latest JPublish version from our new SVN repository.
2. if you want to go straight to the demo app, check the folder components/jptextile from your JPublish folder and build the jptextile web application (ant dist), deploy the distribution into your preferred Servlet container and start playing with Textile, skip the rest.
3. in your jpublish.xml configuration file from an existing application, add the following:

    <component-manager>
        <components>
            <component id="jpTextile" classname="ca.flop.jpublish.wiki.JPTextileComponent">
                <repository name="fs_repository"/>
            </component>
        </components>
    </component-manager>

4. use Textile syntax in any page you need, through this simple component support: $components.jpTextile.renderText("h1. Hi!"), if you want to transform a string containing Textile sytax, or include and transform an external file containing a larger text: $components.jpTextile.renderPath("text.textile") , where the "text.textile" is a text file from your JPublish repository you mentioned in the jpublish.xml file; fs_repository, respectively.

I hope you'll find this support handy, and if yes, please send us your feedback to our user-group list.

Cheers,
-florin

AJAX-DWR and TAG CLOUD code is now available in the new JPublish repository

Sun, 20 May 2007 02:14:03 GMT

After a couple of intense days of code cleaning, tweaking, testing and some more development (long week-end here in Canada), I committed the newest version of our AJAX-DWR and the TagCloud support for JPublish. You can grab the source from our new repository.

I am also thinking to implement some Wiki support for our ViewRenderer, so you could for example use Wiki syntax through RADEOX for pages where you don't really need the template logic of Velocity or FreeMarker. My favorite Wiki syntax is Textile and Markdown, but I am only familiar with the RADEOX implementation for now. Anyway, one of these will be supported by JPublish, and should be relatively easy to implement, so stay tuned; JPublish just started to be more interesting :)

Have a nice long week-end,
-florin

PS
Hmm, I just found a Markdown implementation in Java, MarkdownJ ... niceeeeee :)

Spikes Of Nothingness - textile tag

Wiki syntax -Textile- available now in JPublish

AJAX-DWR and TAG CLOUD code is now available in the new JPublish repository