Hi, I'm currently working on a class project for a software paradigms class. This project, that was assigned to us is to build a web application using the Apache Avalon Framework. I've been reading what is available on the Apache site for the past week and have pretty much come to a stopping point. The latest presentation that Pawl Karendys created was a good help as well, especially in finding out that Avalon Framework does not require Apache Merlin. That is correct right?
I ask this because in the previous version of the "How to get started" documentation it stated for the user to download Merlin and install it, so I had presumed that Merlin was required to run the Framework. This is a summation of our project, it is quite simple. There is a database in SQL that we'll be getting, putting, modifying, and deleting entries. There will be some field comparisons so that we can create "alerts" and present them on the site. So far I've downloaded Apache Framework, Merlin, Maven, and Fortress. I've got Maven and Merlin running as it is supposed to, I think. What I don't understand now, is how to tie everything in together. How do I get the jsp web tier pages to access information from components within the framework? If Framework does not require Merlin, then how do I use Apache Framework to create this web application? If Framework does require Merlin, how does that work as well? Do the jsp pages have to execute the Merlin commands? Another question is, how do you integrate these components together if you had to use Fortress with Framework? Does it matter where you install or unzip the files? Is there a configuration file that you would need to edit? Unfortunately we only have a month's development time for this project and I'm trying to try to figure out how everything interacts together so that the final product is a web service that uses the Avalon Framework. Sorry for so many beginner questions, but I've gone through the present documentation and have only really moved slightly further in my understanding of this framework. Thanks! Thai Lam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
