Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Leszek Gawron wrote:
other example that I posted some time ago: if every cocoon uses
error2html.xsl by default (along with some other default resources)
they should be also packed into jars.
Aha! This is something I wanted to talk about when working on Cocoon
stacktraces: standardizing the fact that some blocks provide resources
and include them in jars.
The first block to do this is CForms, which provides a lot of runtime
resources in org/apache/cocoon/forms/resources: XSLs, js, css, etc. We
also have a few items for the core block in webapp/stylesheets/system
and webapp/resources (js and css). What we see here is that these are
runtime resources targeted both at the server side (XSLs) and the
client side (js, css and also XSLs for xsl-aware browsers).
What I propose is that we define a standard layout for resources
provided by blocks: they should be stored in
resource://org/apache/cocoon/{block-name}/resources/
The nice thing with this propsal is that it is back compatible and
follow current (emerging) conventions. OTH with the blocks architecture,
using the resource protocol is not such a good idea. In OSGi resources
have URLs like bundle://3/org.apache.cocoon.foo e.g. where "3" is the
number of the bundle and is deployment order dependent and is therefore
not usable in sitemaps. In OSGi one typically puts the resources at the
top level of the jar or in directories at top level. There is normally
not that much reason for puting resources in the Java package structure,
as the bundle poften is an apropriate level of granularity anyway.
Look at cforms resources. flattening this structure will give you
maintenance headache.
Your proposal makes sense and we should make something about the issues
you describe. What you describe will not be particulary future proof
though.
It will help at least for now and is applicable also for 2.1.x.
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