Re: Three steps DB Interaction

[Derek Hohls]

Sylvain   Thanks for the explanation - I certainly the lack the depth of insight and knowledge you have... but I have always thought that form definition/template were v. closely related (albeit with different purposes), and given that there is usually a 1:1 relation between them, it has always seemed to make sense to keep them together.  I guess I will need to 'rewire' my thinking here...   Perhaps along with the "cleanup", the Cocoon gurus could outline some "good practice" for directory structures for flow/forms/db applications (along with the rationale, so we could learn as well)?   Thanks. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/11/10 11:38 AM >>> Derek Hohls wrote: > Sorry... found it n: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/blocks/forms/trunk/samples/sql/pages/ > > Just a bit strange that it is not with: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/blocks/forms/trunk/samples/sql/forms/ > > I am used to the structure from all the previous samples > where form defintion and layout are in the same subdir; > and this is the approach I have followed in my apps .... > any reason why its changed now? (I know this makes no > difference to the app, and is purely a convention - but > conventions can help make it easier to find things, so > that is why I ask.) I use this approach because IMO the form definition and the form template, although related, don't belong to the same application domain: the definition is related to the business domain model, and the template belongs to the view. Also, applications are composed of a number of pages, some with forms, some without (such as the employee-list page), why should they be split across different directories ? Hence this organization that seems more natural to me. The forms samples were built incrementally as set of independent samples, and their organization is because of this a bit cluttered up: the sitemap has some redundancy, templates are a mix of "pure-jx" and "previously-xsp-conterved-to-jx", etc. I plan to do some cleanup after 2.1.8 is out. Sylvain -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://people.apache.org/~sylvain http://www.anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with "REQUEST LEGAL" in the subject line to CSIR HelpDesk This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.