David Kinnvall wrote:
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> All: The formatting of the inline code got messed up somehow.
> Much of the formatting white-space got thrown away. It doesn't
> look quite that "squished" in real-life... :-) I have found a
> few code improvements already, btw. Oh, well. Seems that the
> discussion soon got into the more intricate aspects of the
> Velocity development which I won't interfere with. It is a
> damn cool tool, that's for sure!
And Velocity is cool too! :)
> Geir: Sure, I could commit to at least support the code I took
> part in writing and therefor know well enough to improve on.
Great!
> Why I wrote it: The system I'm building is one where we are going
> to run many (as in >100) sites simultaneously, with no filesystem
> access for any of our users. The users can build, manage and
> configure their sites using only a browser. All site structure,
> pages, layouts and data are stored in a database. There are no
> files making up a site structure, rather it is all described
> via an XML document. All dynamic functionality is delivered via
> a set of reusable components which we call modules. Think something
> like a mix of Zope, HyperQbs and Jetspeed, conceptually. That's
> why I needed the DBResourceLoader.
I am very interested to see how that turns out in practice. I have a
client who went down that road, providing content from the DB (Oracle),
and quite frankly, it doesn't work performance-wise. DBs just don't
seem to be great at pumping bitstreams, no matter what Bill and Larry
tell you. Finding stuff, sorting stuff, storing suff yes....
The result is a tiered data architecture where the data is maintained in
the database, but never delivered from there - when something changes,
it is rendered out of the DB into the form needed (usually HTML files),
and cached simply as a file on disk. All requests are fed the file
version, and it is only changed when the content changes in the db.
>
> Other loaders: The ServletLoader sounds cool and could definitely
> be an alternative solution for our system. Didn't think of that
> approach before. Cool idea!
JAR! JAR!
JarJarLoader
> Take care!
>
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