Derek, I'm not using Hibernate, but we are using Spring. What would you like to know? I have no problem releasing knowledge. Unfortunately, posting source code is another matter. I have to get approval to send source files that we are actually using.
Basically, we wrote a "lifecycle" component which has a Container interface and a ContainerFactory. We've implemented two Container variations, one for Pico and one for Spring, although we are only using Spring. I then wrote an Avalon lifecycle component. The configure method, as in all Avalon components in Cocoon, gets its configuration from cocoon.xconf. It is configured with the name of the file that Spring uses for configuration. My configure method gets a Container from the factory, gets an input stream from using the config file and calls the Container's configure method passing the input stream. That's really all there is to it. After that anything that needs to access Spring components uses ContainerFactory.getContainer() to locate the configured container. The only "trick" here is that in order to get my Avalon component built something has to do a ServiceManager lookup on the lifecycle component. I have other Avalon components and have put the lookup() in the first component that needs it. I didn't actually write our lifecycle container, but the developer who did told me that Spring comes with a sample showing how to integrate it into any servlet by providing a routine that gets specified in web.xml. He actually did that first, but I preferred the method described above. Again, I don't use Hibernate so I'm not sure how it fits into this unless it is just a component that can be managed by Spring. Ralph -----Original Message----- From: Derek Hohls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MVC Framework - options? Ralph I am not sure that anyone is planning to try and integrate Struts *and* Cocoon - I think the idea is to replace Struts with Cocoon in the Spring-Hibernate setup. Again, I'll be begging - if you have the experience with this, won't you consider "releasing" some of that knowledge (i.e. more than just the odd, tantalizing tidbit) to those of us still wanting to take this type of approach? Thanks Derek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
