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Re: WebObjects 5.4 is out.

Personally I find creating a simple groovy expression in your wod binding cleaner looking than WOOgnl.

e.g.,
SomeDiv : WOGenericContainer {
	<....>
	omitTags = hasFoo && hasBar;
}
I wasn't very clear -- I'm with you on this (though honestly this is actually identical to OGNL except that WOOGNL requires the leading "~". 5.4 lets you plugin custom association parsers -- you can literally write groovy methods as bindings. It's academically interesting, but sort of crazy. There's a pretty wild example of what the parser can do floating around that I'm not sure if it made it into the developer examples or not ... I'll have to check.

Other than that, I think Wonder's is a more developer-friendly parser. I am, however, totally biased on this topic :) I think groovy components over in-place groovy bindings is probably the better approach to solve the dynamic binding problem.

If it's a developer updating the page, sure. It's simple things like being able to prefix a numeric id for css purposes where groovy bindings are very helpful for a web designer.
Yep, which is why I'm pro OGNL as well (and helper functions, though that's less of a designer thing, but similar sort of goals). WOLips actually validates limited OGNL expressions -- so if you do "~person.firstName + ' ' + person.lastName", WOLips will actually validate those keypaths for you. So how do you determine when to eval as groovy and when it's not? Or is it just always eval'd as groovy for your apps?

ms

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