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From: "giacomo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Matteo Di Giovinazzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Make available a cocoon2-blank.war please!


> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Ovidiu Predescu wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 03:13:22 +0100, "Matteo Di Giovinazzo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible make available a cocoon-blank.war webapp file for
quickly
> > > starting up with a new web application that use Cocoon2?
> > > Also in the build.xml as a subtarget or a main target: it should be
useful!
> > >
> > > See on Jakarta Struts: the struts-blank.war contains all that's needed
for
> > > running the webapp!
> >
> > Rather than a WAR file I think we need a .tar.gz and .zip which
> > contains a whole directory structure, that people can take and start
> > adding their own things to build their Cocoon-based Web
> > application. It should contain a configurable build.xml which compiles
> > the application, and builds the WAR file of the application.
> >
> > I have such a directory structure setup here at HP as an easy way to
> > jump-start Cocoon-based projects. The directory structure is like
> > this:
> >
> > your-webapp/
> >   bin/
> >     ant
> >     ant.bat
> >     antRun
> >     antRun.bat
> >     lcp.bat
> >   lib/
> >     avalon-excalibur-4.0.jar
> >     avalon-framework-4.0.jar
> >     batik-libs.jar
> >     cocoon.jar
> >     dom2.jar
> >     hsqldb.jar
> >     jakarta-regexp.jar
> >     javac.jar
> >     logkit.jar
> >     maybeupload.jar
> >     resolver.jar
> >     xalan.jar
> >     xerces.jar
> >   src/
> >   webapp/
> >     WEB-INF/
> >       logkit.xconf
> >       web.xml.in
> >     cocoon.xconf
> >     sitemap.xmap
> >   build.bat
> >   build.sh
> >   build.xml
> >
> > The build.xml builds the Web app in a build/ directory, and could be
> > configured to copy only the jar files needed by your application.
> >
> > I can add this to the repository and update Cocoon's main build.xml to
> > create a separate .tar.gz/.zip distribution for this if we agree on
> > it. What would be a good name for a subdirectory inside Cocoon that
> > contains this?
>
> Sounds like a CDK. It also touches the discussed RT about CAR (Cocoon
> webapp archive) to enable deployment of individual apps into one Cocoon
> instance.
>
> I suggest to have a ant target to build it. The place to have the needed
> files for it (special build.xml, sitemap.xmap, etc) should go into the
> src/cdk directory (once we have moved to a Avalon like structure of the
> repository).
>
> What are others think about it?

I Look at it as a "least-common-denominator" build target containing only
the bare minimum
of contents in the xconf and sitemap files. It should be a build target
+1 from sweden :-)

/Per-Olof Norén





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