Re: Freemarker update

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Freemarker-update-tp3514516p3514643.html

Sorry I completly forgot about it but had a doubt in mind, that's why I send a message before doing anything
In http://markmail.org/message/uswj4i54iczwothh you suggested some possible progresses I guess related to
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=986577

I'd not prefer to stay forever stuck with 2.3.10 when everybody is going ahead. Someone I know which needs to works on an OFBIz
based CMS is investigating. Maybe we could share the efforts?

Jacques

From: "Hans Bakker" <[hidden email]>

> remember that the new version was slowing down the ecommerce
> significantly....
>
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 14:15 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's a while we did not update Freemarker. We use version 2.3.10 (2007-04-20), soon (16th of May) 2.3.17 will be released with
>> some
>> interesting features and numerous bug fixes.
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_11.html
>> (?c) only used in geolocation.ftl, I don't expect much problems there
>> Interesting:  A new model interface, TemplateDirectiveModel provides an easier paradigm for implementing user-defined directives
>> than TemplateTransformModel did previously. TemplateTransformModel will be deprecated. So should still work, cases could be
>> updated,
>> and easier way to do it now
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_12.html
>> In the templates, now you can conveniently call Java methods that use the Java 5 varargs feature (variable-length argument
>> lists).
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_13.html
>> New built-ins for rounding numbers: round, floor, ceiling.
>> Reworked template caching mechanism for radically improved concurrent performance (Achieved 20x speedup)
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_14.html
>> New built-in: xhtml
>>
>> http://freemarker.org/docs-rc/versions_2_3_17rc1.html
>> ?seq_index_of and ?seq_last_index_of now works on collections
>> ?long now works for date, date-time and time values, and returns the milliseconds since the epoch (as java.util.Date.getTime()).
>> New special variable, now. This returns the current date-time.
>> ?sort and ?sort_by now supports sorting boolean values.
>> FreeMarker now can log its messages directly using SLF4J or Apache Commons Logging.
>>
>> So I'd like to update soon using 2.3.17. Someone is currently testing the RC1 in a custome application  (based on OFBiz of
>> course)
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
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