Jorg Heymans wrote:
Ralph Goers wrote:
0. Download and install maven version 2.0.4 or later.
1. Create a pom.xml listing the appropriate Cocoon blocks you will be
using. The pom.xml files for all Cocoon blocks specify their
dependencies so other blocks will also be included as required.
2. Create a "normal" web application structure. In the WEB-INF directory
create an xconf subdirectory and a configuration file to contain all
your application specific configuration items which are not
automatically provided by the included blocks. Sitemap components
should also be configured there.
3. Create the sitemaps necessary for your application.
4. Run "maven war:exploded". This will create the cocoon web
application. It will automatically invoke the Cocoon block plugin to
integrate the required Cocoon blocks into your web application.
WDOT?
steps 1..3 can be done in an archetype to make things even easier. The
root pom could contain all blocks commented out, initially the user
would just uncomment the ones he needs - just to get things working
initially. We could precreate the xconf dirs and put some examples there
on how to get things done.
Note that archetypes were suffering from several pesky limitations a few
months ago, i think they're due for another round of evaluation now.
Other than that i fully agree with your email, it's how things were
intented to work more or less. Reinhard's block deployer has never been
far off achieving what you describe here.
I wanted to discuss this some weeks ago but IIRC I didn't get any answers.
Jorg's questions makes me think about it again. What does a Cocoon 2.2 release
consist of?
IIUC a Cocoon 2.2 release is providing artifacts in public Maven 2 repositories.
This is
- cocoon-core
- blocks (for the first we should only release forms and template - and maybe
pdf, apples, mail and javaflow)
- deployer-core and deployer-plugin
- an archetype to start a Cocoon project
Additionally we can provide a cocoon-demo.zip that contains web application that
is created with the cocoon-webapp module but this is only a demo and should
*not* be used by people to start their projects.
WDOT?
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