On 7/2/01 2:00 PM, "Berin Loritsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My name is Berin Loritsch and I am the Release Manager for the Jakarta Avalon
Hi!
> projects, as well as a committer on the Cocoon projects. Recently, my
> employer
> asked me to develop a solution using Turbine. The reason was two-fold:
> Cocoon
> documentation is still on the slim side, and the learning curve is high. I am
> still very dedicated to the Avalon and Cocoon projects, however I am open to
> how turbine does things.
Some have told us that the Turbine documentation is a little on the slim
side too!
>
> I am interested in helping Turbine integrate more seamlessly with Cocoon, and
> will be willing to do some of the hard work.
Many people have asked about a Cocoon service in Turbine so I'm sure it
would be welcomed!
> I am intimately familiar with
> the architecture of Cocoon and Avalon, so I would be able to offer suggestions
> that will provide a smooth migration path to something that is embeddable.
You mean embedding Cocoon in Turbine?
> One of the things that I would like to work on in Turbine (once I am familiar
> with it) is to update the configuration system. I find property files to be
> tedious, and can provide some insights on how to maintain backward
> compatibility
> while moving to an XML based configuration. While there are "competing"
> portions of Turbine and Cocoon (notable Actions and DB connection pooling),
> I can help with providing hooks to allow the use of Turbine utilities.
I was planning to use the Resources package in the commons to allow
configuration of Turbine from any source. The commons digester would
definitely allow the configuration of turbine via XML and the
ExtendedProperties is what we are currently using. I definitely think
it would be beneficial to have an XML configuration, along with being
able to configure turbine from a db, or ldap say.
> I hope you will find my contributions both worthwile, and valuable. I know
> there will have to be some cooperation between the projects, and I can provide
> that cooperation. I will post my user related questions to the user list,
> but any proposals I will post here.
Turbine is changing a lot right now, but I'm hoping to get an alpha out
of 2.2 in a couple of weeks for people to look at. Talk to you soon!
--
jvz.
Jason van Zyl
http://tambora.zenplex.org
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
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