on 2/11/00 2:11 PM, christopher baus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a fairly recent build of the Turbine up and running on JServ and
> MySQL. Not to difficult to do. I have question regarding the page
> rendering engine. I am writting a new navigation and what to include
> straight HTML that was written by a designer. According to the FSD document:
>
> Like Screens, the Navigation modules can also call out to external code,
> such as EJB's to get the business logic that is responsible for rendering
> the Html that is sent to the browser.
>
> I'm a bit confused as how to accomplish this. The Navigation seems to be be
> tightly coupled to ECS. I would like to bypass ECS and send a HTML stream.
One way would be to do something like this in a navigation module (pseudo
code)
ConcreteElement build()
{
filedata = readFileDataFromDisk();
return new StringElement(filedata);
}
Simple eh? ;-) This would return the data exactly as it was read from disk.
You could add caching of the file data so that it would only have to be read
once. Not real difficult...
private static String filedata = null;
ConcreteElement build()
{
if ( filedata == null )
filedata = readFileDataFromDisk();
return new StringElement(filedata);
}
You can also look into what John has been doing with the Freemarker
integration. Look in the examples directory as well as
screens/FreeMarkerScreen.
> Also I am also considering using XSL/XML as the native layout format instead
> of HTML, and having the final pages processed by Cocoon. I'm sure there has
> been discussion on this. Could someone point me to a relavant thread.
The JetSpeed project has been doing this. Check out what Kevin has done...
<http://java.apache.org/jetspeed/>
Have fun!
-jon
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