Hi All, Just thought I'd take the opportunity to thank everyone contributing to this most excellent framework. We are basing all our web work on Maverick now and have set up a collection of components that work very well together that possibly others could benefit from using. If anyone is interested, please let us know and well post the code somewhere. Here's what we're using;
In the middle we have a PicoContainer in which we register both servlets and controllers that make up our web application. We have patched the Jetty webserver slightly so that it collects servlets from the container rather than instantiating them directly. Although this is not in accordance with the Servlet spec, it allows our servlets to have dependencies towards other components in the container that will be injected automatically. Then we made a simple ControllerFactory that also collects controllers from the PicoContainer so that our controllers also may have dependecies towards various other components in the application, that will be injected automatically. The recent addition of the ControllerFactory helped very much here. It is very nice to be able to just specify any dependencies on other components in the controller constructor and have them injected automatically. Finally, we made a generic ScriptedController that accepts a <script> element in the maverick.xml configuration. The scripted controller reads the script pointed out by the <script> element and compiles it to bytecode using the Pnuts library. (actually ScriptedController has a dependency towards a ScriptEngine which is satisfied by the PicoContainer, although the implementation we have currently uses Pnuts). This allows us to have scripted controllers that are dynamically recompiled when the script file on disk is modified. In addition, HTTP parameters are made instantly available to the script as local variables, together with session and application context variables. The scripted controllers are extremely compact compared to their Java counterparts (on the expense of lack of IDE support) and they're jst as fast (well pretty much anyway). This small collection of components work extremely well for us, together with Velocity. It is quite rewarding to sit down with our customers and just open Notepad and modify a controller or a view and then refresh the web page to see the changes immediately, in run-time without restarting anything. We may combine regular Java controllers with scripted controllers if we like. So, if anyone is interested let us know. Perhaps a toolbox project for Maverick should be created somewhere where helper components may be posted? Thanks again, Greger Ohlson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click [INVALID FOOTER]
