Thanks for the note, but I've given up on Roller. ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin Grammens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:01 pm Subject: RE: Links to previous months? To: roller-user@incubator.apache.org
> Hi Bill, > I forgot to reply to you about eclipse and roller. Do > you have experience with the Tomcat Plugin with > eclipse? > > http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin > > Having this plug-in installed makes it so you can > debug servlets running in Tomcat with-in eclipse. I > suggest downloading and installing this plug-in. It > really helps in creating any type of web application > in eclipse using tomcat. > > I'm doing this on Linux, but windows should work just > the same. Basically, I downloaded the roller-src and > roller-tools code from the roller downloads page. Ran > the "ant build" process that comes with roller (you > must have "ant" installed). This build process creates > a orion-src/builds/roller directory. > > I then took that oroin-src/builds/roller directory and > created a "tomcat project" in eclipse pointing at the > /orion-src/builds/roller directory as the application. > Everything pretty much compiled and runs just fine. > > The only problem I have found is that by default when > rebuilding your application, eclipse will delete > everything in the WEB-INF/classes directory and > rebuild all of your classes. There are many > configuration files that roller puts in this > WEB-INF/classes directory so I've had to recopy them > back quite a few times. I need figure out a better way > to handle this. > > Another thing that I probably should do is get the > latest code from subversion. The version I've been > hacking on should be very recent since it's the latest > roller-src.tar, but ideally, I should be modifying > code from subversion. > > Hopefully, this has been of some help. > > Justin > > --- Tribley William-cwt010 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Justin, > > The -1 to get all is a good idea. Refactoring the > > simple version to > > include this functionality may be a good approach. > > > > Date formats end up being a minefield. I suppose the > > rigorus way to do > > it is to use the Java packages to retrieve date > > formats based on a code > > (MMM YYYY etc.). This should automatically adjust > > for the user's > > language if Roller is deployed to non-English > > speaking areas. The only > > downside to this is that the writer of the template > > will have to know > > the codes, some of them will not have access to, nor > > be comfortable, > > using javadocs to figure them out. > > > > Another idea is to default to numbers: > > 2006-03 > > 2006-02 > > > > Etc. These are language-neutral and they require no > > specification. If > > you want labels then you must include a named 12 > > element array in your > > template ( suggest "MonthLabels" ?). The code uses > > the labels in the > > array if the array is there, otherwise numbers rule. > > We could also have > > a format variable that, if present, alters the > > display . YY is two-digit > > year, YYY* is 4 digit year, M+ (M MM MMMM etc) is > > month and any other > > characters get passed as-is. This would allow the > > real alternative > > universe crowd (Celts, Klingons, Esperante) to use > > whatever labels for > > the month turns them on! Default for no format is > > YYYY-Month . > > > > Thanks for your work. > > Bill > > > > Ps - If you have time and would tell me how you > > bring Roller into > > Eclipse I would really appreciate it. I have some > > work I want to do on > > an editor upload servlet. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
