Frequently Asked Questions

General

  1. What is Foo?
  2. What is Bar?

Installation

  1. How do I install Foo?

Developers

  1. When do I need a custom plugin class? Isn't a Velocity script enough?
  2. What Plugin class should I extend?
  3. I see a lot of @bean tags and generated BeanInfo classes everywhere. Why is all that needed?

General

What is Foo?

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What is Bar?

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Installation

How do I install Foo?

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Developers

When do I need a custom plugin class? Isn't a Velocity script enough?

In most cases a Velocity or Jelly script is enough, and you can use the built-in <velocity> or <jelly> plugins.

However, if you need to provide special logic to your templates, you should subclass one of the base plugin classes and implement this special logic there. See the Custom Plugins section in the developer documentation for more information.

What Plugin class should I extend?

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I see a lot of @bean tags and generated BeanInfo classes everywhere. Why is all that needed?

BeanInfo is used as runtime attributes. The XDoclet SDK has a plugin that can generate BeanInfo classes, and these can be used at runtime to discover attributes about a class.

More information can be found here .