Plans for the BLC 1.* line
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:31 am
by cwish
We're currently trying to decide which version of BLC to use for our project, whether to stay with 1.6 or move to 2.0. We haven't yet started development, but one of the things that attracted us to BLC was its use of widely used technologies, including JSPs. Will the 1.6 version continue to be supported (bug fixes, new features, etc.), or is the 2.0 version going to replace it entirely? Also, could we use JSPs with BLC 2.0 rather than Thymeleaf if we wanted to?
Re: Plans for the BLC 1.* line
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:11 pm
by aazzolini
We absolutely recommend 2.0 for any future development.
We are not planning on actively developing anything on the 1.* line aside from certain bug fixes / patches.
Yes, you can use JSPs with BLC 2.0 very easily - we chose Thymeleaf as a default templating engine, but it is quite easy to change over to JSP - you can start by looking at the view resolver that we have defined and replacing it with a JSP one.
We have plans to port the Heat Clinic demo to JSP in the somewhat-near future, but it's not at the top of our priority list. We mainly want to do this for benchmarking purposes vs Thymeleaf.