Re: Java components in blocks

[Pier Fumagalli]

On 17 Apr 2005, at 16:44, Ralph Goers wrote:
Pier Fumagalli wrote:
My vision is quite simple... How many _COMPONENT_ interfaces we need 
for Cocoon? Probably 3:

"Generator"
"Transformer"
"Serializer"
(well, you might have another 2 or 3 of them but do you see the 
point?)

Please take a look at the Portal and then explain how the above works 
for that.  There are a heck of a lot more components that someone 
building a portal needs to configure besides these.  Sitemap 
components are only uses in Cocoon Portlets.  While each Portal 
request is fired off by the PortalGenerator, it invokes a lot of 
elements that are configured by whoever puts together the portal.
Reading through the portal (I'm no expert here), I can't really 
understand what ties the Portal (Pluto, and all that lot), with a 
Cocoon block... I think this is more in the ballpark of "components" 
rather than Cocoon blocks and pipeline services. But again, I might be 
wrong...

Someone care to explain????
        Pier