Load Templates from Database?

patrickr May 12, 2007 12:07 PM

Hi all,

Is there a way to load templates from a database? I don't have the possibility to write templates to a file because this only works with exploded archives. Still, I want to have some templating mechanism at runtime available.

I know that this question depends on the view technology. Looking at the Facelets documentation I see, that I can specify facelets.RESOURCE_RESOLVER and this might be a way. But maybe Seam already offers a feature like this.

Any thoughts?

1. Re: Load Templates from Database?

christian.bauer May 12, 2007 3:04 PM (in response to patrickr)

Seam has no built-in mechanism for that and it's a little tricky to get Facelets dynamic. Have a look at the stuff in Seam CVS in examples/wiki/ and how the plugins render their plugin.xhtml dynamically with a Facelets handler. That should get you half way there.
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2. Re: Load Templates from Database?

stu2 May 12, 2007 5:00 PM (in response to patrickr)

Pete wrote up a nice blog post on that at http://pmuir.bleepbleep.org.uk/2007/04/building-plugin-system-in-facelets.html
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patrickr May 12, 2007 7:01 PM (in response to patrickr)

Thanks for your feedback! I didn?t realize it was that complex, but again you smart Seam guys figured a way. ;-)

And regarding Pete Muir?s blog (that I've bookmarked now): I?ll vote for ?Serving up dynamic resources RESTfully?

Regards
Patrick
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4. Re: Load Templates from Database?

patrickr May 12, 2007 7:02 PM (in response to patrickr)

BTW: The wiki looks great!
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