Hi,
On 17 Apr 2007, at 12:52, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
I don't think it's "a *lot*" of work. All you have to do is to type
two commands:
mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.cocoon -
DarchetypeArtifactId=cocoon-22-archetype-webapp -
DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-M2
-DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=myCocoonWebapp
mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.cocoon -
DarchetypeArtifactId=cocoon-22-archetype-block -
DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-M5
-DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=myBlock1
and add information about dependency to the myCocoonWebapp/pom.xml
file (three lines of XML). Then you are done and can start coding your
application. Is it that much compared to the situation in C2.1
where there were no archetypes and you had to provide skeleton for
your
sitemap by hand?
Well, consider the simplest (not necessarily best-practise but I'm
sure quite common) case in 2.1:
./build.sh webapp
cp mount-table.xml.sample to mount-table.xml
edit mount-table.xml
... start developing sitemap etc ...
I suppose it's all relative. Those big scary mvn lines make it seem
like a lot, even if it isn't. And what you end up with is a template
application, and not a template publishing framework.
The emphasis with the demo is to show content from a Spring bean, and
not for example a simple XML transformation. There's not even any
XSLT in sight. This is a pretty dramatic change for what used to be a
publishing framework.
I guess ultimately if it bothers me so much, I should scratch the
itch and write a new archetype ;-)
But blocks still seem kinda heavyweight to me, if all I want is XML,
XSLT, sitemap ....
I cannot follow you here. Compared to the C2.1, additional steps
you need to perform is creating webapp and adding dependency to
your block
in webapp's pom. Creating block is actually similar to creating
directory with empty sitemap in C2.1.
Do I miss something that involves more effort?
No, I guess there's not much difference ... just new things to learn
and make sure they're documented.
Thanks,
Andrew.
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