Response templates – yes, they are required!
Response templates are basically used to render the web script response. In MVC terms, response templates play a role of views. The output of the web script is rendered in the required formats using the web script response templates.
It is possible to have multiple response templates for a web script, and based on the requested response content type while invoking a web script, a response can be rendered using the appropriate response template.
Response template also has access to web script query string parameters along with the data items provided by the controller script and access to some common content repository entry points.
We have already seen rendering response for our hello world web script.
Note
For JavaScript-based web scripts, response templates are always required. There are certain implementations of Java-backed web scripts where response can be directly rendered from the Java controller. In such case, there is no need to specify response...
