Hi all, I will have some time in the next week to enhance the performance of the dispatcher. The performance always have been the Achilles’ heel of the dispatcher.
Another week point was/is the readability of the code. The StAX experiment I conducted a while ago is far easier to read. The missing part is the integration with cocoon. This however can be done easily with a transformerWrapper class that will call the StAX implementation and execute the work with the StAX components. Another thing that I always wanted to integrate are java based contracts. I want to allow within the next version of the dispatcher that one can use a class instead of a xsl. Since future version of cocoon are based on Spring and I am really appreciate Spring as an excellent IoC container the dispatcher will be as well based it. My plan is that this work will be compatible with the current version of the dispatcher. It will provide simple shell scripts to update the current version of structurer/contracts to the new form. I do not like the specific extension we have for structurer (.fv)/contracts (.ft) anymore since they are historic and do not reflect anymore the reality. To remember ft stands for forrestTemplate and fv for forrestView which is the first names of contracts and structurer. Instead I suggest *.contracts.xml and *.structurer.xml. My initial plan is to reuse the code from whiteboard/dispatcher, conduct the needed changes to work with java contracts and add spring support. Any thoughts. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions
