Do we really need a webapp and database for static content? -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/08/2003 10:40:49 AM: > One way to maintain Jakarta web sites, such as commons, of course is to > use a CMS system. > Store XML in a database (such as PostgreSQL), and edit remotely, flag as > approved, have it pre-render to HTML, and have a jSTL emit it. Since > content is in DB, it is easy to manager. Since it's a web app, it is > easy to modify. Of course, ver fast. > Here is one example of Open Source CMS w/ a working URL: > http://basicportal.com/do/cmsPg?content=DEVELOPMENT > > See the url? > This makes a call to db to retrieve this content where = "DEVELOPMENT". > (Of course DB is cached auto by DAO so no ping if no change) > Realy, change the web site is easy, it's a lot like Wiki, except it has > J2EE JDBC realms as to who can author and who can approve. > > .V > > > Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Glenn Nielsen wrote: > > > > > >>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:56:46 -0500 > >>From: Glenn Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Re: [docs] Crappy build system > >> > >>Henri Yandell wrote: > >> > >>>Jakarta Commons build system for the website is very very crappy. > >>>Regardless of whether things move to Maven or some other look and feel, > >>>I'd like to check in the jars needed so that people don't have to go > >>>around hunting in jakarta-velocity, jakarta-site2 and who knows where > >>>else. > >>> > >>>Is anyone against this? Is there some reason for the current confusing > >>>setup? > >>> > >> > >>-1 to checking the jars into CVS > > > > > > Agreed. Changing the site generaton process to use Maven would eliminate > > any need for this. > > > > Of course, so would using standard XML technologies like XSLT, but I'm not > > going to volunteer to maintain the Commons site sources, so I'm not going > > to go there :-). > > > > Craig > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >