On 03/08/2012 10:09 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
Thanks, that's very helpful!
We have a lot of what we call "applications" that run side-by-side
under a single Cocoon 2 instance. They each live under a separate
subfolder (child of "mount/") under the main Cocoon sitemap. Each
"application" has its own sitemap.
It sounds like these "applications" actually correspond to the
"blocks" you describe below.
They would make good candidates for blocks after all.
Is it fair to say that a Cocoon "web app" corresponds to one instance
of Cocoon running?
web app I use actually only for packaging to deploy to tomcat.
So a "web app" can consist of several blocks?
web app can have deps to different blocks yes.
However like Robby described you normally end up with the following:
- war block -> web app -> deb to web block
- web block -> block -> deb to all sub blocks (like cocoon-shiro for
auth mgt, ...), providing REST services and gui
- common block -> block -> util, helper, cross cutting concern code
- dao block -> block -> connection to db (in our current customer
project we use jpa over hibernate with a postgres db) providing dto for the
- ...
What you describe is like a farm, I have a customer that is hosting >300
lenya publication in one lenya instance. However I tend to deploy each
cocoon app as war on its own since this way scalability is easier and
you have a finer control over each app.
Now the reason for "farming" is normally that you have common code that
you want to use across the apps. This would be done now in your common
block. The benefit is that you can just declare the dep and you are
ready to use this common code.
It is important to note that consist in c3 context means "declaring deps
to" and the war project is a simple "zombie" that distributes the work
to the blocks.
salu2
Lars
On 3/8/2012 12:22 PM, Robby Pelssers wrote:
Hey Lars,
Great you ask these questions actually and I will try to answer to my
best knowledge.
* First of all your understanding of maven archetypes is completely
correct. A maven archetype is a project that creates a folder
structure on your file system where the archetype itself contains
some default resources like e.g. a partially prefilled pom.xml and so
on.
* There is no need to declare any dependency on a cocoon block
actually. But since version 2.2 Cocoon uses the servlet service
framework. I would compare a cocoon-block to a sub-webapp
potentially providing some Java components and pipelines which can be
invoked from another cocoon-block.
To give a concrete example. At my customer I created 1 cocoon-block
called 'shared' which provides services to fetch files from a XMLDB,
Alfresco, file system. As customer requirements grew, I created
other blocks delivering needed functionality but they all need and
use above described services. So in that case I only needed to
declare a dependency on this 'shared' block.
That enables me to call this service from another sitemap as
e.g.<map:generate src="servlet:shared:/alfresco/{1}"/> where {1} is
some file identifier.
* Project / module / archetype and artifact are typical maven terms.
- Project should need no explanation
- module can be described as a part of the project
- archetype is explained above
- artifact is the thing that gets build when you run mvn package (a
war, jar, ...)
As a end user you should not be creating archetypes, merely using
them as shown in the previous mails. It will generate some skeleton
maven projects for you.
Any further questions?
Robby
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