I am wondering if someone on the Roller development team, or someone who may
have done customizations such as the following might be able to provide us a
bit of guidance?
We are exploring adding another database table to extend Roller for a
requirement that we have. We need to be able to display the data from the new
table in Roller weblog pages.
We would like to do all of our customization consistent with Roller 2.0's
existing architecture and build processes.
We understand creating Velocimacros on the UI end. And on the persistence end,
we understand creating the POJOs with HibernateDoclet tasks.
We are unclear on the mechanics of getting the new data object into the
Velocity context for the PageServlet.
Either of the following might be helpful:
1) an outline of how data from an existing Roller table is loaded into the
Velocity context, or
2) a quick sketch outlining of the requirements for implementing logic for a
new table.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
g
