Scalate Blog

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.3.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks like JAXRS, Lift or Play or in integration frameworks like Apache Camel.

The following template languages are supported through the same common API:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup along with the Jade syntax
• Mustache which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js

All expressions inside Ssp, Scaml and Jade benefit from the full power and expressiveness of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your templates.

Scalate 1.3 Highlights

• Jade template syntax is now supported which is a dialect of Haml or Scaml
• New Servlet Filter which allows more flexible mapping of templates in a web application. For example you can have the request /foo.xml automatically bound to /foo.xml.ssp if the template exists letting you easily implement views without requiring a controller or routing in your MVC layer.
• JSP Converter helps you migrate your existing JSP web application across to Scalate
• HTML Converter lets you migrate your existing HTML files easily to Scaml or Jade for extra DRY markup
• DRY template imports, values and logic thanks to Scalate Package objects which allow imports, values and methods to be shared across some or all of your templates to reduce noise inside your templates.
• Site Generator lets you generate static or dynamic websites using templates and/or wiki markup together with exporting wiki content from Confluence wikis to migrate to using git/svn as your wiki content repository. You can also use a common bootstrap approach now across both static website generation and web applications - such as to configure wiki macros in a canonical way. We now eat our own dog food and generate this site using Scalate.
• More filters and pipelines supported such as confluence as well as the existing markdown which are particularly useful for website generation (static or semi-static).
• The Scalate Tool now comes with a full interactive shell with full tab completion to make it easier to use the tool either for ad hoc or interactive shell use.

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.2.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks like JAXRS, Lift or Play or in integration frameworks like Apache Camel.

The following template languages are supported through the same common API:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup
• Mustache which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js

All expressions inside Ssp and Scaml benefit from the full power and expressiveness of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your templates.

Scalate 1.2 Highlights

• Scalate now supports the Mustache template language which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js. Support for Mustache uses the same common Scalate API so it works with all the existing Scalate adapters such as servlets, JAXRS, Lift or Play and Apache Camel
• Scalate is now built on top of Scala 2.8.0 final release
• Scuery for jQuery style transformation of HTML or XHTML using CSS3 selectors
• the console can be more easily reused in your application without using WAR overlays and templates can be loaded via the classloader to help make more modular web applications without relying on WAR overlays
• improvements in associating different template languages to files/URIs/strings/streams in a more flexible API
• various improvements in the accuracy of the mapping of scala compiler errors to positions in the template source file which are then shown and linked in the console
• improved maven plugin for precompiling templates

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.1.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets, in JAXRS, with the Play Framework or in Apache Camel. (Work on lift integration is in progress).

All expressions inside Scalate benefit from the full power of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your templates.

Two template languages are currently supported:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails

• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup

  Scalate 1.1 Highlights

• Ssp now supports Velocity style directives for more concise looping and branching.

• new Scalate Tool for creating new projects with Scalate more easily
• improved API for working with templates from different sources (file, URL, Source, String etc) via the helper methods on TemplateSource object and methods on TemplateEngine which take a TemplateSource
• easier to configure whitespace handling via the escapeMarkup property on TemplateEngine and RenderContext so its easy to configure markup escaping for an entire project or enable/disable it within templates.

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.0.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets, in JAXRS, with the Play Framework or in Apache Camel. (Work on lift integration is in progress).

All expressions inside Scalate benefit from the full power of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your templates.

Two template languages are currently supported:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup

Further information:

• Change Log
• Community
• Documentation
• Download

Feedback is always welcome!