> > DispatcherServlet is part of Servlet Service Framework, quite new > invention of Cocoon community. If > you want to read a little bit more about its function take a look here: > > http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/cdocs-servlet-service-impl/g1/1412.html > > Docs for SSF are not finished yet (lack of time) but you should get at > least rough idea about its > function. If you have any comments about this particular document don't > hesitate to express them. > I'll get back to finishing this document quite shortly so any feedback is > more than welcome. >
i will have to take a look at it..because as you could have guessed by now..i need to!! > > > > > > 2. where Spring framework helps GSite get hold of necessary > Cocoon > > > dependencies to fulfill the request. > > > > Not sure what do you mean. Could you explain a little bit more? > > > > > > I think what i got mixed up,is to look at Spring as a seperate > > entity,instead of just Cocoon,which hides me from Spring. > > Which means that my web-app, doesn't talk to Spring directly instead i > > just deal with cocoon as i used to and cocoon takes care of the rest. > > You are right to some extent. I mean, Cocoon setups Spring on its own and > hides most low-level > details of this framework. However, every new component (e.g. generator) > in 2.2 is just a casual > Spring bean. It means that it can benefit from all Spring features like > Dependency Injection, > support for transactions, scoped beans, etc. > now i am getting the view of the model :) > > > The reason behind all these? > > 1. We have 2 web-apps in our organization: One uses Cocoon and the other > > uses Spring. > > 2. On finding out that Cocoon-2.2 uses Spring instead of Avalon, i > > thought may be we can combine this too apps together. > > 3. This new single web-app will use Cocoon-2.2 as its easy to move over > > the front end to Cocoon .Also we can then re-use the code base in the > > spring based app by making direct calls to them from inside this new > > cocoon-2.2 based web-app. > > 4. Its just a idea so far but first i need to upgrade the existing > > cocoon-2.1.10 app over to Cocoon-2.2 .... > > As long as your both applications are in the same Spring's application > context they can reference to > beans of each other. > > > You cannot make a full blown webapp ready to be installed in Tomcat > > from block directly. Instead > > just follow this tutorial: > > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1362_1_1.html > > > > i followed the steps as listed in the link (minus anything dealing > > with myBlock2).Running, mvn install at the getting-started-app > > directory, which i get the following error.. > > > > [INFO] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > > [INFO] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal > > 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.0.2:war ': Unable to > > find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.0.2:war' > > in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin' > > Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository: > > > org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.0.2:war > . > > > > > > ...don't know what i am missing here??? > > > Argh, you are not the first one mentioning this error. It's quite > interesting that I haven't managed > to reproduce it on different machines to date. Anyway, you got this error > after executing following > commands: > cd myCocoonWebapp > mvn clean package > > It's crucial here that you execute this command in myCocoonWebapp > directory. Report if you get the > same error, then. > that did it!!.. yes i had been running those commands from the parent dir. which in this case was = getting-started-app Since the web-app that i am in the process of upgrading is huge, i think i will keep pestering you all again..;) i do appreciate your help..thank you! Gautam > > -- > Grzegorz Kossakowski > Committer and PMC Member of Apache Cocoon > http://reflectingonthevicissitudes.wordpress.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
