Velocity vs Apache Tiles

java spring-mvc content-management-system velocity tiles
StanislavL picture StanislavL · Feb 11, 2011 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

What's better? We are going to start a new web project and it's a question which technology to choose. Project includes Spring MVC + WebFlow. Any good/bad experience in support, extending, performance?

Thank you.

Answer

mainas picture mainas · Aug 29, 2012

Velocity and Tiles are two different beasts — Tiles is a layout engine and Velocity is a template engine. They do not intersect anywhere in terms of functionality.

From your question I can guess you probably won't be using JSP. That's a smart move. Velocity is one of the template engines out there and it does an absolutely splendid job.

And if you choose to follow the template engine route for your view, then check out commentit. It's a small, simple and fast layout engine I created. It might serve your purpose perfectly.

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