One other thing which confuses me, as I understood it running Forrest as a webapp allows you to update the site in real time. However I have an FAQ page and changes are only displayed if I re-start the forrest site running as a webapp, is this a bug?
I also noticed that some changes to pages (and pipelines) seem to require a restart, but I couldn't discern a pattern behind it.
Is it correct to assume that Forrest's webapp uses Cocoons caching scheme which (in theory) is supposed to cache each pipeline up to the first dynamic component and will assemble the response to all further requests starting from the point where a component of the pipeline was last modified.
So what about changes to the sitemap? It would seem that the above approach could even cache requests through successive changes in (other) parts of a sitemap, since verification of a cached pipeline is based on checksums calculated for each step.
It's all to do with the "check-reload" parameter in the sitemap element or the sitemap parameter:
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/faq/faq-sitemap.html#faq-N10067
Ross
