[opencms-dev] CmsTemplateBean once again!

[GV]

I'm really glad to see a reply to this topic! Thanks for that.

I wouldn't really disagree with your comments but is any documented template 
around which captures news items (or articles!) placed as independent files 
in a directory and displays them in a master page?

I was trying to make use of the Article Management module but got into 
problems with the current opencms version! I don't know if Ulrich, the 
creator of this module, could comment on this?

Thanks

George

On Sunday 24 July 2005 21:25, T Reaves wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2005, at 5:38 AM, GV wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > after searching the archives I saw few questions regarding
> > documentation of
> > "templateone" and especially requests for a CmsTemplateBean javadoc
> > but no
> > real answer was provided!
> >
> > Is any chance to get something on these topics?
> >
> > As pointed by other users, templateone seems very useful but without
> > documentation leads to a dead end!!! :-(
> >
> > In a hope that Alkacon will reply to this ...
> >
> > Thanks
>
>      I think everyone will find that templateone isn't useful for
> much other than exploring; it doesn't make a good site, and things
> aren't implemented that cleanly.  What do I mean by these two
> statements?  I'll explain.
>
>      As to not making a good site, there are two things here to
> consider: it's very heavy for almost any real site, and secondly, you
> can't really make the site look that much different from every other
> site using templateone.  Of course, if neither of these two
> considerations you care about, ignore them.
>
>      As to not being clean, this is a little less ambiguous:  there
> are just several things they do incorrectly - or poorly - in
> templateone. There are areas where properties are read from elements
> to configure both look and function, then other areas where things
> are hard-coded.  Places where things are hard-coded just don't make
> since, as properties would have been just fine.
>
>      It's also important to note that CmsTemplateBean is in a package
> for templateone, so that the two go together.
>
>      I don't want anyone to think I'm knocking templateone, as it is
> very useful as a learning area; it's just that after a week or so of
> playing around with it, any competent developer is going to decide
> it's more trouble that it's worth to deploy it, and take what they've
> learned from it to create there own template system.  That's what
> happened to me, and a few other people I know that use OpenCMS.
>
>      As an interesting aside, I've wondered why people haven't
> released their own templates to the community;  I'm working on a very
> nice one at the moment, and will be releasing it when finished
> (hopefully in another few weeks).
>
>
>
>
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