Joe’s new blog is SiteMesh’ed MovableType
They’re all coming back to the blog world! Joe Walnes has a new blog. Apparently I inspired him to use SiteMesh to wrap MT – it’s a killer combination.
On the JIRA news blog, we have SiteMesh wrapping MT. Think about the chain of scripting that’s happening for a second here:
Firstly you’ve got MovableType templates containing MT scripting elements which are being processed, by MovableType Perl scripts, with content, to produced JSP files with JSP scripting elements in there. When requested, the servlet engine turns the JSP page into a Servlet in Java and executes it, producing HTML. That HTML is then given to SiteMesh, which parses it into pieces, passes those pieces into the decorator (another JSP file turned into a servlet) and then the resulting HTML from both is given to the client.
Did you get all that? It’s awesome. And so simple – truly!
