Folks, During the development of Schecoon I really enjoyed the fast build time I would get compared to building Cocoon. On my machine doing a "./build.sh -Dinclude.webapp.libs=true webapp" from scratch in Cocoon takes 2 minutes and 10 seconds. In Schecoon a "./build.sh webapp" takes 25 seconds to complete.
I don't know how others can stand long build times, but for me it makes me feel I'm loosing time, and reminds me of the old days of developing C programs, where the link time was outrageously long. I do lots of tricks to minimize the time for the edit-compile-run cycle, but I'm still not satisfied. So I propose splitting Cocoon in smaller parts, based on high-level functionality, which generate their own results in a common build area. This would be kind-of the new Avalon Excalibur system, although a bit different. A directory containing a high-level functionality would contain not only the code, but documentation and samples as well. For example the continuations based flow, would be in a directory called "flow". This directory would include everything Schecoon contains right now, components, examples, and documentation. Another directory would be "forms", which would follow a similar pattern. And so on. Each of these directories would have their own build.xml file. The top level build.xml would create a common build directory, which will hold all the results, and invoke the build in all the subdirectories. Building in a subdirectory compiles the Java code, and puts all the jar files in common build area. It would copy all the documentation in the appropriate directory in the common build area, and would add an entry using the XConf-tool in the main sitemap for it. This way implementing a new functionality becomes very localized, and doesn't result in rebuilding a large jar file. Maybe this will fit nicely into the Cocoon block idea as well, I don't know. The disadvantage is that instead of having one cocoon.jar file, we'll have many smaller jar files that have to be distributed. But with Cocoon blocks, this should not be an issue anymore, since they'll be hidden in the Cocoon distribution. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, -- Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/ (GNU, Emacs, other stuff) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
