Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
* Reinhard Poetz:
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In the future the plugin will also support a "cocoon:deploy"
goal that works based on a configuration file which describes
the blocks that should be installed and how they are configured.
Isn't that exactly what we need to automate webapp build? How many
Maven plugins are needed? Just this one right?
yes, only that the "cocoon:deploy" goal does nothing ATM.
This configuration file is based on an XML schema and can be
unmarshalled into a Java object. (I'm using Castor-XML for
this.)
Isn't it just another pom.xml? Do we really need to write yet
another XML schema?
pom.xml describes *Java* *implementation* dependencies. But blocks will have a
polymorphic behaviour. This means that a block doesn't depend on a
implementation but on a contract. pom.xml (Maven 2) doesn't fit this requirement.
A block can depend on other blocks (polymorphic) and on components provided by
other blocks (Java interfaces).
How this can be achieved isn't carved in stone yet. That's the reason why I
stopped my work on the deployer until the contracts become clearer (hopefully soon).
Writing some Eclipse plugin in order to get a visual
interface, shouldn't be too difficult as it can collect the
same information as the content of XML file would be. Of
course the Eclipse plugin can directly call the API of the
deployer-core. For now I've stopped development as I have to
completly understand what the contract of blocks will be. As
soon as I know this, I will finish the deployer-core.
What is the advantage of calling the API directly? We need a
persistent storage to keep the blocks selection anyway.
yes, right
If you need/want to know more, just let me know! I don't know if
you have Eclipse plugin-development experience, but setting up a
project that does a simple deploy would be very helpful.
Designing this plugin should be feasible, I think we could reuse
part of [1]Lepido that helps to handle XML documents in an Eclipse
plugin.
ok
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