Hi.
What you are talking about is a reader.
I created a cocoon 2.2 reader which minified JS scripts (using jsmin)
but the view on the dev mailing list was debate if there was a real need
for this and so I abandoned the project [1]. I agreed with Reinhard oin
the end. The basic argument against this was that it is more efficient
to do this at build time. If you are using cocoon 2.2, then you can use
Maven, if you are using cocoon 2.1, it is a little more difficult, but
can be achieved using Ant tasks.
Last time I looked at the YUI compressor and shrink safe, they weren't
Cocoon friendly because both projects actually modify Rhino's code base
without changing the package (though that might have changed).
Maybe the community should decide if this functionality is required.
Cheers.
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg56613.html
Hello,
Has anyone successfully configured Cocoon to do on-the-fly minification
of js and/or CSS?
There are good java-based minifiers out there, such as Dojo ShrinkSafe
and YUI Compressor.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe
Both use Rhino, which Cocoon ships with, I believe.
The YUI compressor page says,
"If you wish to minify your files on the backend (also known as
on-the-fly minification) instead of at build time, you will want to
cache the minified files in memory for optimal performance (instead of
minifying the same files over and over & minification is a time
consuming process) Note that the YUI Compressor can easily be
instantiated and used from a Java-based environment (Servlet)."
This page: http://wnas.nl/how-to-redevelop-a-large-website
talks about a guy who "used cocoon and the yui compressor to concatenate
and minify the js and css files, something that greatly reduced the
number of http requests. It also gave us the freedom to write well
documented code and sep[a]rate the code into a large number of small files."
Those are some great benefits...
but how to integrate YUI compressor into Cocoon? Do I need to write a
custom generator? And how to provide caching?
Thanks for any ideas,
Lars
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