Daniel Fagerstrom wrote: > I'm not certain that the configuration and the deployment stuff belongs > together. Also to make the deployment util more usable outside Cocoon, > something like the block context source is needed. Would it be possible > to implement the block context source as a Spring resource and move it > to the same module as the deployer? I'm not sure, but I think Spring does not provide a pluggable resource resolving system like we have. When you have an application context, the application context is the ResourceLoader (= source resolver). So adding own protocols means adding functionality to the application context. It might be that it's possible to configure an additional resource loader, but I haven't looked into that.
The current configurator is doing several things that I think belong together. Adding configurations and properties to the Spring application context is in fact deploying beans (or configuration files), so I think it makes sense to have the deployment of web application resources at the same place. If you have a jar with both, bean configurations and a COB-INF directory, it might not make sense to deploy only one of those twos; they belong together and need to be deployed both. I think we should leave this stuff in the configurator for now; release this stuff as 1.0 and use it. If the needs arises to split up, we can make a configurator 2.0 version and change things. > > Pipeline > -------- > > </snip/> > Maybe the component module should be split into a base and an optional > module? Yepp. > The Avalon support should preferably be moved to a separate module. Yes, I tried it but failed :( Currently the avalon stuff is mixed with tree processor stuff, so you can't easily separate one from the other :( This has to change! > So as you can see we are starting to get a nice structure, but there are > still many open questions where your input or even better, work would be > needed. > Amen. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Chief Architect http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
