Wednesday, 4 April 2007
blojsom 3.2 available
Changelog
Updates
Quickstart (for new installations)
Upgrading instructions
Bugs Fixed
If you think it takes a lot to implement a Widget API, think again. At the very least, have a look at the Widget API. It's quite simple. But, still powerful as widgets have access to items like the request, response, context, etc. The widget plugin in blojsom is responsible for sending out a request to widgets for their "junk". The correct widget responds with, "I'm a get get get get you drunk ... get you love drunk off my humps." Or ... something like that. And the rest is history. The templates just need to display that "junk". I like to think of them as mini-plugins. Widgets in blojsom can also be run per-flavor. So, you can have different widgets run for your main page display as opposed to your various feeds. You can access the rendered widget templates en-masse or per-widget.
Oh, and of course there's the new Bean Scripting Framework dispatcher which would allow you to develop templates in your scripting language of choice. I've already used this plugin to develop blojsom templates in JRuby. As far as I'm concerned, the templates thing is pretty much done as far as blojsom is concerned. You can use the 20 some-odd scripting languages in BSF or JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker, WebMacro or Groovy to write templates. That's really 25 ways in which to write templates for blojsom. Yeah ... we're done here.
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