Robert,
well, if I were you I'd tweak the build.xml to tailor it to your needs, and just tell
the readers to:
1) replace the native build.xml with yours
2) run it
3) deploy the resulting WAR.
I have no idea of alternative approaches... sorry :(
Regards,
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Luca Morandini
GIS Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Single JAR with all the libs?
>
>
> Ya I know that. I'm not talking about the prebuilt, distributed web
> application. I am trying to develop a strategy for other users to be able to
> use cocoon from within JBoss without having to leap through 15 hoops. So I
> basically want a way I can build cocoon libs and then in each war file I make
> that uses cocoon, I merely need the config files and only things pertaining
> to my stuff and not to cocoon in general.
>
> Getting the kitchen sink build working was a matter of just dropping it in
> JBoss. Now I want to go further and make other applications with the product.
> Right now Id have to resort to telling readers to download cocoon, unpack it,
> rewrite their manifests to include the Cocoon-Libs section, then run the
> build which should convert the old libs to the new location and then install
> cocoon.
>
> Picture this scenario. You want to use cocoon for a front end to a powerful
> EJB based system. Your readers of your book want to download your source code
> and install it and get it running. They need a simple process. Right now the
> process is "download the kitchen sink version, figure out what the hell you
> don't need, repack everything and deploy it." Not functional for users of the
> product.
>
> Therefore I keep rolling back around to having a single jar that I can drop
> in JBoss like an oversized golf ball and call cocoon "installed" and ready
> for users to deploy their OWN war files that use cocoon rather than asking
> them to modify cocoon's war.
>
> I'm not sure if I'm making sense here.
>
> -- Robert
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luca Morandini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:41 AM
> Subject: RE: Single JAR with all the libs?
>
>
> > Robert,
> >
> > I'm not sure I've understood your question, but I like to give it a try.
> >
> > When you build Cocoon, it produces a WAR file, you just:
> >
> > 1) put the WAR under the webapps of your servlet container
> > 2) re-start the container
> >
> > The you can deploy your Cocoon app under the "mount" directory, hence avoid
> editing the general sitemap.xmap (the one in
> > "webapps/cocoon").
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Luca Morandini
> > GIS Consultant
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://utenti.tripod.it/lmorandini/index.html
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:07 AM
> > To: Cocoon Users
> > Subject: Single JAR with all the libs?
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to compress all the cocoon jars into one jar so I can just
> drop in my application server like a golf ball and all
> > cocoon deployments will have access to it ?
> >
> > -- Robert
> >
> >
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