Greetings. I'm checking out Turbine as a possible base for a major web application I'm starting to design. I see a lot that I like, but I am concerned about one aspect. Perhaps readers of this list could help to resolve the question for me.
It's important that the finished application be easily extensible, in the sense that someone else could develop a "module" that would add to the application. A module would get inserted into the website's page hierarchy at a particular location, supplying an entire new branch. For example, it might define a directory "http://localhost/myapp/module3/"; and all contents of that directory. Or perhaps it would get inserted into an existing directory (supplied by the base app or an already-installed module) such as "http://localhost/myapp/somepart/module5/";. As I understand the Turbine framework, this would require files to be separately inserted into some or all of the application's templates/app/screens, templates/app/navigations, and templates/app/layouts hierarchies. In addition, appropriate class files would have to be inserted at the right places in the application's WEB-INF/classes hierarchy, and various configuration and properties files might need altering as well. What I'd really like is a way to just drop a folder or JAR containing all the module's classes, templates configuration information and properties into a directory somewhere, and have the Turbine app recognize it. Perhaps I'd have to specify in an app-global configuration file where that module's root should be located in the application's existing hierarchy (as it appears in URLs). Then installing a module is as simple as drag-and-drop, and edit one file. (I realize I'd also need to have any back-end support for the module installed separately, such as EJBs or DB tables, but I'm not worried about that part here.) Is this possible in the Turbine framework? Anybody got any neat ideas? Thanks, ..Ian -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- Dr. Ian Beatty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Education Research Group voice: 413.545.9483 Department of Physics fax: 413.545.4884 Univ. of Massachusetts http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/idb/ Amherst, MA 01003-4525 USA -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
