Upayavira,You aren't actually 'wrapping', you're 'replacing'. The Ant task does much the same as the CLI - it interfaces with Cocoon via the CocoonBean.
That sounds very interesting. I am not familiar with Ant and other standard
java tools. What's the advantage of wrapping the cocoon cli with an ant
task?
The benefits of using Ant are the array of Ant tasks that are available to you - tasks to copy files, unpack archives, send files by FTP, SCP, doing XSLT transformations, checking into/out of CVS, etc, etc. Around the functionality of Cocoon you can build a more powerful deployment system using the lego blocks that Ant provides.
In many ways, I see the Ant task overtaking the CLI as the recommended way to access Cocoon's offline functionality, because of this flexibility within Ant.
Also, because Cocoon is running within the same JVM as Ant, there is a minimal impact in terms of using Ant - Ant itself being relatively lightweight (the JVM startup being the slow part). So, to my mind, you get many benefits with few drawbacks.
To really make the CocoonTask integrate with Ant, and make it really useful, I suspect it will need a few enhancements. For example, the xconf language it uses (and shares with the cli.xconf) doesn't really offer much support for the list of URIs to generate to have been created by a previous Ant task. So, when people start actively using the CocoonTask, I suspect it will want some improvement. But lets see the use cases emerge before we do anything.
I have already written some basic docs for the CocoonTask. I've just got to make sure they're valid xdocs before I can commit them - hopefully within a week or so.
I hope this answers your question.
Regards, Upayavira
Laurent
----- Original Message ----- From: "Upayavira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Cocoon Ant Task
David Crossley wrote:
Upayavira wrote: <snip/>
Please do.Having now seen it work well, I will document it properly soon. I will also add it to the list of external tasks that is maintained by the Ant project (unless anyone objects).
I have not seen much discussion here on cocoon-dev about testing it.
After your troubles, I had a private discussion with Sylvain, who tested it and it worked. I've also now tested a separate checkout on both Windows and Linux, which worked fine (except for a requiring an NPE patch that was nothing to do with the Ant task).
Ahhh. Great. Thanks for that. I'm pleased.Anyway, Upayavira, remember the trouble that i had on the forrest-dev thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106604813100001 Well it works for me now with yesterday's Cocoon cvs and following the instructions in that thread.
Dunno what changed, but it works.
Dunno either. The error you got was one that I got a lot in development, but haven't had at all since I committed the code.
I've got docs half written. I'll commit them soon.
Regards, Upayavira
