Wasn't sure what to call this. I have a need to make some shared information available to components. I'd want the information cached in memory to cut down on the overhead of reading it from the filesystem or database. I'll need it within custom generators for now, but it'd be a plus to generalize this to others such as actions and great if the same info could be called in the sitemap. Because of this I'm thinking that some component would be best and may already exist. I've read up on the new module stuff but can't tell whether it's meant for this use or not.
Example: We have subsites organized into page-layouts by a separate cms system. Each subsite has a default "front page" page-layout id and there are many places I need to look this up for fallback behavior. The information rarely changes, but is stored in the database for use by the cms and thus the lookup operation is too expensive to just read it each time. I thought about using a cached pipeline to hold the information as xml but that makes accessing it from within other components difficult. I thought of defining a singleton class with public getSubsiteID(page-layoutID) methods, etc. but thought there was a more "cocoon" way of doing this that would make the availibilty more general. Geoff Howard --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
