Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:59, Robert Simmons wrote:
 Sun JDO JSR-12.

And I thought this is a Java specific specification of the ODMG model. No?


 - Original Message -
 From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
 Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment
 ...


 Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
 generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

 Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the spec
 ... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference implementation
 does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for sure
 (but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like it
 because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
 applications and what the server itself uses (making me less dependent
 on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

 Cheers,
 Thor HW

 On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:
  I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
  superior
  to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it. Perhaps
  it
  will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
  http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.
 
  Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
  basically
  rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an object
  model
  using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
  (raw XML
  or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me and
  it
  just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence and
  schema manipulation.
 
  I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
  about using
  it in the book that I am writing.
 
  -- Robert
 
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
  Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
  environment ...
 
 
  Robert:
 
  Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
  copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon (2.0/2.1)
  and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
  when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
  own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
  available in Tomcat at some point.
 
  If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib tree,
  add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest ...
  Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.
 
  I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO and
  not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?
 
  Cheers,
  Thor HW
 
  On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
  Hy, all;
 
  During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
  mailing
  list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
  development
  environment a bit up to date.  I plan to setup a Wiki page on this
  theme. Although this may be a bit off topic, it still would be great,
  if someone could comment on this issue.
 
 
  the tools collection
  
  Here is what i have put together so far. Of course this is driven
  at least partially by what i do for my customers...
 
  free tools:
  1.) OS: linux and solaris (maybe a mater of taste)
 
  Go linux. Instead of spending money on licenses, you spend money on
  support
  contracts. Cheaper. In addition, Solaris is primitive compared to
  Linux.
 
  2.) apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk2, mod_SSL)
 
  Duh ;)
 
  3.) tomcat 4.1.18
 
  Yes, but you can go one step further. Get JBoss with integrated
  tomcat. JBoss
  will handle all sorty of nasty things like deploying to clusters for
  you. As
  a bonus, you get the ability to integrate with EJB based programs.
 
  4.) cocoon-2.0.4
 
  2.1 Hopefully soon!
 
  5.) eclipse
 
  See my previous message about eclopse vs netbeans.
 
  6.) sunbow eclipse tools (xml/sitemap)
 
  URL ?
 
  7.) ant
 
  I have 15 million of them in my damn appartment, want a few? Oh ...
  you mean
  Jakarta ant? Ok, nevermind then. =) Im currently looking at Krysalis'
  extensions to ant. http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/quickstart.html
 
  8.) java-1.3.1 (sun JDK on all platforms)
 
  No no .. 1.4.1!! In 1.4 there are so many COOOL things that I
  couldnt
  live without anymore.
 
  9.) Secureway LDAP Server (i'll switch to Open LDAP soon)
 
  Im an LDAP idiot so Ill trust you there.
 
  Tools you didnt talk  about:
 
  CVS - Use it over clearcase. its powerful, free, and a pleasure to
  use.
  BugZilla - Great program! Lousy looking interface. We should start
  a
  project to port
  it to cocoon. =) However bugzilla is a great and free
  bugtracking 

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Jeremy Quinn

On Saturday, Feb 8, 2003, at 19:28 Europe/London, Robert Simmons wrote:


The only other comment I have is that I'm still searching for a content
editor for Static XML. I'm currently investigating using adobe 
FrameMaker.
The idea being that I would have a WYSIWYG way of editing documents 
that any
one of my clients could use and I could write XSLT processors to 
convert that
to the web format using cocoon. Right now the current XML editors are 
too
primitive. Usable for a programmer but for a corporate document 
jockey, no
chance.


I don't have the $$$ to try Framemaker, but if you are prepared to put 
in the work, you could try XMLMind XMLEditor (XXE).

	http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/

You need to write a config for XXE, for your docset.
You need to write CSS to display your XML.
You can use either XSD or DTD for validation.

If you want to use XSD (and use the editor for free) you must have a 
default namespace starting with 
'http://xmlmind.com/xmleditor/Schema/[yourdoc]', in your document root.

I have managed to produce a satisfactory environment for 'corporate 
document jockeys' to use.

regards Jeremy


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Re: Cinclude issues...

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Turner
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:00:19PM -0500, Ben Young wrote:
 I've recently attempted to use the cinclude to aggregate some files that I'm
 currently aggregating with the map:aggregate command, but I've run into some
 issues that I'm not sure how to resolve.
 
 My current map:match section looks like this:
 
 map:match pattern=**/index.htm*
   map:act type=sourcetype src=/home/htdocs/content/{1}/index.xml
map:aggregate element=document
   map:part src=cocoon:/{../1}/../_navigation.xml
 element=navigation/
   map:part src=cocoon:/{../1}/index.{sourcetype}/
/map:aggregate
   /map:act
   map:transform src=/home/htdocs/design/shell.xsl
 map:parameter name=nav_filename
 value=/home/htdocs/content/nav_home.xml/
 map:parameter name=path value={1}/
   /map:transform
   map:serialize/
 /map:match
 
 I use an internal-only pipeline to find the nearest _navigation.xml file
 in existence.
 
 map:pipeline internal-only=true
   map:match pattern=**/_navigation.xml
 map:act type=resource-exists
map:parameter name=url
 value=/home/htdocs/content/{1}/_navigation.xml/
map:generate src=/home/htdocs/content/{../1}/_navigation.xml/
map:serialize type=xml/
 /map:act
 map:redirect-to uri=cocoon:/{1}/../_navigation.xml/
   /map:match
 /map:pipeline
 
 I'd like to move the aggregation step after the shell.xsl is applied. The
 plan is to have the shell.xsl output a cinclude tag that uses the
 cocoon:// psuedo-protocol in the appropriate place using the $path
 parameter plus _navigation.xml
 
 My current trouble is that the cinclude only runs through the internal
 pipeline once.

Perhaps my brain slipped out of gear, but that seems a bit cryptic..
Don't you need a map:transform type=cinclude/ tag somewhere to get
cinclude processing?


--Jeff

PS: in case you didn't know: Forrest does this kind of nav + body
integration to generate pages like http://xml.apache.org/forrest/


 Thank you for any help you might be able to give,
 Ben
 
 
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RE: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Homeijer
Your classpath issue won't be fixed by other combinations. It's not a tomcat
problem. The only thing that will fix the problem is fixing the java
compiler in Cocoon to not use a classpath, but use the classloader instead.
For this two fixes have been suggested on the mailing list:
- Fixing the piza compiler (I think this was done bij Jakob Dalsgaard)
I tried the fix, but couldn't get it to work in my Cocoon setup.
- Using the eclipse java compiler in Cocoon (suggested by Christopher
Oliver). The compiler he tested should be integrated in Cocoon.

Because I am not working on a cocoon project right now, I cannot spend time
on it. I guess if it bothers someone enough he will fix it?

HTH,
Michael

-Original Message-
From: Robert Simmons
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8-2-2003 10:05 
Subject: Re: A note about the  best(?) (cocoon-) development environment
...

I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
superior
to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it. Perhaps
it
will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.

Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
basically
rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an object
model
using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
(raw XML
or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me and
it
just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence and
schema manipulation.

I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking about
using
it in the book that I am writing.

-- Robert



- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
environment ...


Robert:

Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon (2.0/2.1)
and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
available in Tomcat at some point.

If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib tree,
add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest ...
Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.

I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO and
not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 Hy, all;

 During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
mailing
 list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
 development
 environment a bit up to date.  I plan to setup a Wiki page on this
 theme. Although this may be a bit off topic, it still would be great,
 if someone could comment on this issue.


 the tools collection
 
 Here is what i have put together so far. Of course this is driven
 at least partially by what i do for my customers...

 free tools:
 1.) OS: linux and solaris (maybe a mater of taste)

 Go linux. Instead of spending money on licenses, you spend money on
 support
 contracts. Cheaper. In addition, Solaris is primitive compared to
 Linux.

 2.) apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk2, mod_SSL)

 Duh ;)

 3.) tomcat 4.1.18

 Yes, but you can go one step further. Get JBoss with integrated
 tomcat. JBoss
 will handle all sorty of nasty things like deploying to clusters for
 you. As
 a bonus, you get the ability to integrate with EJB based programs.

 4.) cocoon-2.0.4

 2.1 Hopefully soon!

 5.) eclipse

 See my previous message about eclopse vs netbeans.

 6.) sunbow eclipse tools (xml/sitemap)

 URL ?

 7.) ant

 I have 15 million of them in my damn appartment, want a few? Oh ...
 you mean
 Jakarta ant? Ok, nevermind then. =) Im currently looking at Krysalis'
 extensions to ant. http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/quickstart.html


 8.) java-1.3.1 (sun JDK on all platforms)

 No no .. 1.4.1!! In 1.4 there are so many COOOL things that I
 couldnt
 live without anymore.

 9.) Secureway LDAP Server (i'll switch to Open LDAP soon)

 Im an LDAP idiot so Ill trust you there.

 Tools you didnt talk  about:

 CVS - Use it over clearcase. its powerful, free, and a pleasure to
use.
 BugZilla - Great program! Lousy looking interface. We should start
 a
 project to port
 it to cocoon. =) However bugzilla is a great and free
 bugtracking system.

 commercial tools:
 10.) clearcase cms (see below)

 Garbage.

 11.) xml-spy

 Good but confusing.

 12.) several DB-Systems

 all you need is Mysql baby.

 Ones you didnt talk about:

 13) Together control center. If you can afford it, it absolutely kills
 any
 other IDE on the planet.
 14) eXcelon Stylus Studio. A great XML editor. It has a bonus of being
 easy

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Simmons
Nope. 100% pure Java specification. Give it a read. The first couple chapters
will give you a good idea of its meaning.

-- Robert

- Original Message -
From: Niclas Hedhman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...


On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:59, Robert Simmons wrote:
 Sun JDO JSR-12.

And I thought this is a Java specific specification of the ODMG model. No?


 - Original Message -
 From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
 Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment
 ...


 Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
 generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

 Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the spec
 ... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference implementation
 does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for sure
 (but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like it
 because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
 applications and what the server itself uses (making me less dependent
 on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

 Cheers,
 Thor HW

 On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:
  I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
  superior
  to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it. Perhaps
  it
  will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
  http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.
 
  Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
  basically
  rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an object
  model
  using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
  (raw XML
  or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me and
  it
  just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence and
  schema manipulation.
 
  I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
  about using
  it in the book that I am writing.
 
  -- Robert
 
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
  Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
  environment ...
 
 
  Robert:
 
  Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
  copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon (2.0/2.1)
  and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
  when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
  own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
  available in Tomcat at some point.
 
  If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib tree,
  add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest ...
  Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.
 
  I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO and
  not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?
 
  Cheers,
  Thor HW
 
  On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
  Hy, all;
 
  During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
  mailing
  list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
  development
  environment a bit up to date.  I plan to setup a Wiki page on this
  theme. Although this may be a bit off topic, it still would be great,
  if someone could comment on this issue.
 
 
  the tools collection
  
  Here is what i have put together so far. Of course this is driven
  at least partially by what i do for my customers...
 
  free tools:
  1.) OS: linux and solaris (maybe a mater of taste)
 
  Go linux. Instead of spending money on licenses, you spend money on
  support
  contracts. Cheaper. In addition, Solaris is primitive compared to
  Linux.
 
  2.) apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk2, mod_SSL)
 
  Duh ;)
 
  3.) tomcat 4.1.18
 
  Yes, but you can go one step further. Get JBoss with integrated
  tomcat. JBoss
  will handle all sorty of nasty things like deploying to clusters for
  you. As
  a bonus, you get the ability to integrate with EJB based programs.
 
  4.) cocoon-2.0.4
 
  2.1 Hopefully soon!
 
  5.) eclipse
 
  See my previous message about eclopse vs netbeans.
 
  6.) sunbow eclipse tools (xml/sitemap)
 
  URL ?
 
  7.) ant
 
  I have 15 million of them in my damn appartment, want a few? Oh ...
  you mean
  Jakarta ant? Ok, nevermind then. =) Im currently looking at Krysalis'
  extensions to ant. http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/quickstart.html
 
  8.) java-1.3.1 (sun JDK on all platforms)
 
  No no .. 1.4.1!! In 1.4 there are so many COOOL things that I
  couldnt
  live without anymore.
 
  9.) Secureway LDAP Server (i'll switch to Open LDAP 

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Simmons
Point of correction. Class enhancement is not generation per se. The actual
class files are enhanced in place. In other words the byte code enhancers go
into the class files and alter them. The solution elegantly solves some nasty
problems.

-- Robert

- Original Message -
From: Robert Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...


 Sun JDO JSR-12.


 - Original Message -
 From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
 Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment
...


 Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
 generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

 Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the spec
 ... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference implementation
 does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for sure
 (but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like it
 because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
 applications and what the server itself uses (making me less dependent
 on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

 Cheers,
 Thor HW

 On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

  I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
  superior
  to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it. Perhaps
  it
  will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
  http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.
 
  Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
  basically
  rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an object
  model
  using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
  (raw XML
  or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me and
  it
  just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence and
  schema manipulation.
 
  I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
  about using
  it in the book that I am writing.
 
  -- Robert
 
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
  Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
  environment ...
 
 
  Robert:
 
  Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
  copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon (2.0/2.1)
  and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
  when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
  own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
  available in Tomcat at some point.
 
  If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib tree,
  add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest ...
  Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.
 
  I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO and
  not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?
 
  Cheers,
  Thor HW
 
  On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
 
  Hy, all;
 
  During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
  mailing
  list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
  development
  environment a bit up to date.  I plan to setup a Wiki page on this
  theme. Although this may be a bit off topic, it still would be great,
  if someone could comment on this issue.
 
 
  the tools collection
  
  Here is what i have put together so far. Of course this is driven
  at least partially by what i do for my customers...
 
  free tools:
  1.) OS: linux and solaris (maybe a mater of taste)
 
  Go linux. Instead of spending money on licenses, you spend money on
  support
  contracts. Cheaper. In addition, Solaris is primitive compared to
  Linux.
 
  2.) apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk2, mod_SSL)
 
  Duh ;)
 
  3.) tomcat 4.1.18
 
  Yes, but you can go one step further. Get JBoss with integrated
  tomcat. JBoss
  will handle all sorty of nasty things like deploying to clusters for
  you. As
  a bonus, you get the ability to integrate with EJB based programs.
 
  4.) cocoon-2.0.4
 
  2.1 Hopefully soon!
 
  5.) eclipse
 
  See my previous message about eclopse vs netbeans.
 
  6.) sunbow eclipse tools (xml/sitemap)
 
  URL ?
 
  7.) ant
 
  I have 15 million of them in my damn appartment, want a few? Oh ...
  you mean
  Jakarta ant? Ok, nevermind then. =) Im currently looking at Krysalis'
  extensions to ant. http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/quickstart.html
 
 
  8.) java-1.3.1 (sun JDK on all platforms)
 
  No no .. 1.4.1!! In 1.4 there are so many COOOL things that I
  couldnt
  live without anymore.
 
  9.) Secureway LDAP Server (i'll switch to Open LDAP soon)
 
 

howto get the context-root in a component registered incocoon.xconf

2003-02-09 Thread Jakob Praher
hi all,

I want to load a component-manager from a selector, that I registered in
cocoon.xconf.

The problem is, that at configuration( .. ) time I have no way to access
the objectModel, like for instance in an Action.

But in order to get the configuration files properly, I somehow must
have access to the location of the Webapp-Context.

The problem is that the Context of the cocoon.xconf ComponentManager
does not have the Webapp Context Information, since it is a separate (as
far as I have read in the source code) one from the
CocoonComponentManager, which is used to process the request.

It would be great if the $context-root variable would be set for
cocoon.xconf like it works within logkit.xconf ... 
- Why is this not done - is this a code smell?

The other thing I come to like is to use the JNDI Environmental Context
comp/env, which would be insofar great, as the components could be
easier portable to other environments, e.g. no webapp environments,
since JNDI comp/env is not servlet specific, or cocoon specific like
org.apache.cooon.environment.* package.

any hint is appreciated.

thanks

-- Jakob


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Re: Using Cocoon and ($tool) to generate static pages.

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Turner
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:07:02PM +0100, Andrea Censi wrote:
 Which is the best tool to create an offline copy of a cocoon live site?
 
 It should spider through the pages, follow every link and gather both html and 
 images/css/pdf. Then it should rearrange internal links from absolute to 
 relative (http://site/page; - page.html,  / - index.html).
 The result is to be loaded on a low-spec [ = no cocoon :( ] webserver.
 
 I don't consider the batch use from command line to be a viable alternative, 
 because:
  - There are different views of single xml files.

Don't the different views have different URLs?  If so, and if you link to
those different URLs, then they will each have a file written.

  - I don't want to explicitly change the internal URL format used by the site 
 (/ ... /page/ with a final slash)

I think the crawler will convert links to a directory, eg 'foo/' to
'foo/index.html'.

  - (not sure) Would it work with dynamic SVG-gif?

Yes. I'd say, give it a try.  Works fine rendering Forrest sites.
Alternatively, you could try spidering tools like 'wget'.

--Jeff


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cocoon classloader problem

2003-02-09 Thread Thomas Haditsch
while trying to get the cocoon command line interface to work, i stumbled
across this odd problem:

Object o = 
Class.forName(org.apache.avalon.excalibur.xml.JaxpParser).newInstance();
org.apache.cocoon.util.ClassUtils.loadClass(org.apache.avalon.excalibur.xml.JaxpParser).newInstance();

the JaxpParser class obviously is in the class path, since the first line 
gets executed without
problems... but when trying to use the cocoon class loader, i get this:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.avalon.excalibur.xml.JaxpParser
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:198)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:265)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at 
org.netbeans.core.modules.ProxyClassLoader.loadInOrder(ProxyClassLoader.java:472)
at 
org.netbeans.core.modules.ProxyClassLoader.smartLoadClass(ProxyClassLoader.java:452)
at 
org.netbeans.core.modules.ProxyClassLoader.loadClass(ProxyClassLoader.java:124)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at org.apache.cocoon.util.ClassUtils.loadClass(ClassUtils.java:88)
at com.rauser_ag.website.tests.Spool.main(Spool.java:24)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at 
org.openide.execution.ThreadExecutor.executeClass(ThreadExecutor.java:117)
at 
org.openide.execution.ThreadExecutor$TERunnable.run(ThreadExecutor.java:184)
at 
org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:119)

anybody got a clue why it can't find a class that's available in the 
classpath? i'm wondering
because the build script for the docs seems to manage this, while this code 
doesn't.

thanks in advance.


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Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment...

2003-02-09 Thread Frank Ridderbusch
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:26:50 +
Jeremy Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
 
 I don't have the $$$ to try Framemaker, but if you are prepared to put
 in the work, you could try XMLMind XMLEditor (XXE).
 
   http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/
 
 You need to write a config for XXE, for your docset.
 You need to write CSS to display your XML.
 You can use either XSD or DTD for validation.
 
 If you want to use XSD (and use the editor for free) you must have a 
 default namespace starting with 
 'http://xmlmind.com/xmleditor/Schema/[yourdoc]', in your document
 root.
 
 I have managed to produce a satisfactory environment for 'corporate 
 document jockeys' to use.
 
 regards Jeremy
 

Hi,

I'm just curious. I assume you XXE used only with UTF-8 or ascii. I also
gave XXE a short whirl, but I was unable to load documents with
encoding=ISO-8859-1 that contained german öäü... characters.

The documents were originally created with XEmacs and styled with Saxon 
and the DOCBOOK stylesheet from Norman Walsh. And this worked
flawlessly. So I think, there might be an issue with XXE and with
non-standard character sets.


Well, I don't assume I must explicitly start Java with an encoding
defined (I haven't tried this yet).

-- 
MfG/Regards

Frank Ridderbusch

Since I have taken all the Gates out of my computer, it finally works!!


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Help - Trying to fit the text to fit the page

2003-02-09 Thread e nio

  Request some help in formatting the displayed document to fint
in one page. For example the
http://localhost:8080/cocoon/documents/userdocs/xsp/esql.html
does not fit in a page and I have the scroll bar in the bottom.
Is there a way to make the body part fit the remaining space and
I would not like to have any horizontal scroll bars.

  I have looked at the stylesheets use, like the
doclist2document.xsl and document2html.xsl and I dont know which
attribute I can set so the display does not have horizontal
scroll bars. I tried adding width=100 attribute on the div
tag and nothing much change.  Any tips?

Regards,
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Re: Instal Cocoon on Mac OS X

2003-02-09 Thread Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert
Check out the instructions for the installation:
http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/installing/index.html
depending on the version of Tomcat you are using you'll have to copy files into different directories.

Now, if you use Jetty, you don't have to copy any directories.  If you want to use Jetty/\Jboss you can follow these directions to get everything downloaded and setup on your Mac
http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/enterprisejava.html

Cheers,
Thor HW


On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 06:23  PM, Ross wrote:

I have installed the tomcat server on Mac OS X and it works fine. I downloaded cocoon and put the cocoon.war file in webapps. I stopped and started tomcat and it created the cocoon folder in webapps. When I go to http://localhost:8080/cocoon the browser does not respond for a long time. Do I have to move some .jar files?
 
Any assistance is appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Ross.


Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert
Possibly, but when I went to Sun's announcement of JDO at JavaOne they  
had post-processing of the *.class files with some funky stuff so that  
the classloaders wouldn't reject the *.class files to allow loading of  
the data.  Castor, et al. was following the ODMG much closer and didn't  
try to hide the fact the the classes were persistent and made the  
programmer do a little work.  I found that approach much more in  
keeping with where I wanted to go.  I guess that's why I like Jini and  
the new RMI stuff as they don't try and hide the network, as much as  
abstract it for you.

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 12:30  AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:

On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:59, Robert Simmons wrote:

Sun JDO JSR-12.


And I thought this is a Java specific specification of the ODMG model.  
No?


- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development  
environment
...


Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the  
spec
... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference  
implementation
does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for sure
(but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like it
because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
applications and what the server itself uses (making me less dependent
on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:
I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
superior
to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it.  
Perhaps
it
will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.

Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
basically
rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an  
object
model
using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
(raw XML
or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me  
and
it
just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence  
and
schema manipulation.

I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
about using
it in the book that I am writing.

-- Robert



- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
environment ...


Robert:

Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon  
(2.0/2.1)
and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
available in Tomcat at some point.

If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib  
tree,
add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest  
...
Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.

I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO  
and
not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
Hy, all;

During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
mailing
list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
development
environment a bit up to date.  I plan to setup a Wiki page on this
theme. Although this may be a bit off topic, it still would be  
great,
if someone could comment on this issue.


the tools collection

Here is what i have put together so far. Of course this is driven
at least partially by what i do for my customers...

free tools:
1.) OS: linux and solaris (maybe a mater of taste)

Go linux. Instead of spending money on licenses, you spend money on
support
contracts. Cheaper. In addition, Solaris is primitive compared to
Linux.


2.) apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk2, mod_SSL)


Duh ;)


3.) tomcat 4.1.18


Yes, but you can go one step further. Get JBoss with integrated
tomcat. JBoss
will handle all sorty of nasty things like deploying to clusters for
you. As
a bonus, you get the ability to integrate with EJB based programs.


4.) cocoon-2.0.4


2.1 Hopefully soon!


5.) eclipse


See my previous message about eclopse vs netbeans.


6.) sunbow eclipse tools (xml/sitemap)


URL ?


7.) ant


I have 15 million of them in my damn appartment, want a few? Oh ...
you mean
Jakarta ant? Ok, nevermind then. =) Im currently looking at  
Krysalis'
extensions to ant. http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/quickstart.html

8.) java-1.3.1 (sun JDK on all 

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert
Have you found that it works well for you across JVM versions and  
implementations?  The ODMG JDO works everywhere.

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:22  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

Point of correction. Class enhancement is not generation per se. The  
actual
class files are enhanced in place. In other words the byte code  
enhancers go
into the class files and alter them. The solution elegantly solves  
some nasty
problems.

-- Robert

- Original Message -
From: Robert Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development  
environment ...


Sun JDO JSR-12.


- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development  
environment
...



Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the  
spec
... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference  
implementation
does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for sure
(but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like it
because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
applications and what the server itself uses (making me less dependent
on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
superior
to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it.  
Perhaps
it
will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.

Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
basically
rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an  
object
model
using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
(raw XML
or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me  
and
it
just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence  
and
schema manipulation.

I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
about using
it in the book that I am writing.

-- Robert



- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
environment ...


Robert:

Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon  
(2.0/2.1)
and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
available in Tomcat at some point.

If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib  
tree,
add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest  
...
Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.

I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO  
and
not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

Hy, all;

During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
mailing
list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
development
environment a bit up to date.  I plan to setup a Wiki page on this
theme. Although this may be a bit off topic, it still would be  
great,
if someone could comment on this issue.


the tools collection

Here is what i have put together so far. Of course this is driven
at least partially by what i do for my customers...

free tools:
1.) OS: linux and solaris (maybe a mater of taste)

Go linux. Instead of spending money on licenses, you spend money on
support
contracts. Cheaper. In addition, Solaris is primitive compared to
Linux.


2.) apache 1.3.26 (mod_jk2, mod_SSL)


Duh ;)


3.) tomcat 4.1.18


Yes, but you can go one step further. Get JBoss with integrated
tomcat. JBoss
will handle all sorty of nasty things like deploying to clusters for
you. As
a bonus, you get the ability to integrate with EJB based programs.


4.) cocoon-2.0.4


2.1 Hopefully soon!


5.) eclipse


See my previous message about eclopse vs netbeans.


6.) sunbow eclipse tools (xml/sitemap)


URL ?


7.) ant


I have 15 million of them in my damn appartment, want a few? Oh ...
you mean
Jakarta ant? Ok, nevermind then. =) Im currently looking at  
Krysalis'
extensions to ant. http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/quickstart.html


8.) java-1.3.1 (sun JDK on all platforms)


No no .. 1.4.1!! In 1.4 there are so many COOOL things that I
couldnt
live without anymore.


9.) Secureway LDAP Server (i'll switch to Open 

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Simmons
Yes. That is part of the specification. The enhancement is to byte code, not
to native versions of the code. Therefore any JVM can read the enhanced
files. You might look at Jakarta's BCEL project to get an idea about how byte
code enhancement works.

As for the ODMG vs. byte code enhancement, Id have to disagree. The thing I
want out of a persistence project is a fire and forget solution. As a
consultant, I don't get paid for providing persistence solutions. I get paid
for working on what makes my clients money. Be that web purchasing or genetic
engineering. I am far better off having solutions where I need to invest only
small amounts of thought in how to persist data and do object to relational
mapping.

In addition, there are instances, many of them, where you have neither
control of the data that needs to be stored, nor access to the class files
defining these data objects. At which point the JDO approach is far superior.
Lastly the JDO approach provides the ability to reverse engineer schemas into
the cross JDO vendor portable JDO metadeta files. This gives enormous power
when working with legacy databases.

-- Robert

- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...


Have you found that it works well for you across JVM versions and
implementations?  The ODMG JDO works everywhere.

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:22  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 Point of correction. Class enhancement is not generation per se. The
 actual
 class files are enhanced in place. In other words the byte code
 enhancers go
 into the class files and alter them. The solution elegantly solves
 some nasty
 problems.

 -- Robert

 - Original Message -
 From: Robert Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:59 PM
 Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
 environment ...


 Sun JDO JSR-12.


 - Original Message -
 From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
 Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
 environment
 ...


 Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
 generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

 Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the
 spec
 ... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference
 implementation
 does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for sure
 (but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like it
 because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
 applications and what the server itself uses (making me less dependent
 on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

 Cheers,
 Thor HW

 On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
 superior
 to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it.
 Perhaps
 it
 will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.

 Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
 basically
 rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an
 object
 model
 using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
 (raw XML
 or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me
 and
 it
 just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence
 and
 schema manipulation.

 I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
 about using
 it in the book that I am writing.

 -- Robert



 - Original Message -
 From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:47 PM
 Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
 environment ...


 Robert:

 Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka JBossWeb).  No nasty must
 copy things to endorsed directories, etc.).  You take Cocoon
 (2.0/2.1)
 and drop it in your deploy directory and POOF it's there.  It's nice
 when the servlet engine actually uses the libs you define and not its
 own first as the default ... isn't that in the spec ... and will be
 available in Tomcat at some point.

 If you want any extra libs in cocoon-2.1 you add them in the lib
 tree,
 add them to jars.xml and the cocoon build adds them to the Manifest
 ...
 Jetty/Jboss just eats 'em up in the right place.

 I'm off to look for Kudo JDO (which hopefully follows the ODMG JDO
 and
 not Sun's) ... how does this rank against Castor or Jakarta-OJB ?

 Cheers,
 Thor HW

 On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 Hy, all;

 During the last months of activities i learned a lot from this
 mailing
 list. while i followed the discussions i started getting my
 development
 

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert
I'm familiar with BCEL and have used it to speed up JMX and reflection  
based applications.
I haven't found the ODMG way to be very slow.  Are we comparing specs  
to tools?  Most things can auto-deploy schemas, but very few of my  
clients will use such a feature.
We've used several ODMG based solutions to take advantage of a  
particular vendors enhancements, or J2C connectors.  I can say that in  
the past my team of 3 have used these techniques to deliver  
maintainable, workable solutions very quickly.

If you're persisting classes that you don't have control over, nor  
access to the class files (don't you need access to manipulate them?)  
then I'd be worried about version management and coupling.

But, I'll have another look.  Last thing, it's too bad that with JDO  
they have introduced 3 query languages, rather than have one that works  
for JDO, CMP-EJB, etc.

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 04:56  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

Yes. That is part of the specification. The enhancement is to byte  
code, not
to native versions of the code. Therefore any JVM can read the enhanced
files. You might look at Jakarta's BCEL project to get an idea about  
how byte
code enhancement works.

As for the ODMG vs. byte code enhancement, Id have to disagree. The  
thing I
want out of a persistence project is a fire and forget solution. As a
consultant, I don't get paid for providing persistence solutions. I  
get paid
for working on what makes my clients money. Be that web purchasing or  
genetic
engineering. I am far better off having solutions where I need to  
invest only
small amounts of thought in how to persist data and do object to  
relational
mapping.

In addition, there are instances, many of them, where you have neither
control of the data that needs to be stored, nor access to the class  
files
defining these data objects. At which point the JDO approach is far  
superior.
Lastly the JDO approach provides the ability to reverse engineer  
schemas into
the cross JDO vendor portable JDO metadeta files. This gives enormous  
power
when working with legacy databases.

-- Robert

- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development  
environment ...


Have you found that it works well for you across JVM versions and
implementations?  The ODMG JDO works everywhere.

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:22  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

Point of correction. Class enhancement is not generation per se. The
actual
class files are enhanced in place. In other words the byte code
enhancers go
into the class files and alter them. The solution elegantly solves
some nasty
problems.

-- Robert

- Original Message -
From: Robert Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
environment ...



Sun JDO JSR-12.


- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development
environment

...



Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the
spec
... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference
implementation
does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for  
sure
(but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like  
it
because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
applications and what the server itself uses (making me less  
dependent
on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
superior
to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it.
Perhaps
it
will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.

Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
basically
rules. Go through the tutorials and you will love it. Create an
object
model
using your favorite problem domain. Then create the JDO mapping file
(raw XML
or with IDE plug-in) and then just say uhh, make a schema for me
and
it
just does it. Its amazing! No more screwing around with persistence
and
schema manipulation.

I have the commercial version of that product and will be talking
about using
it in the book that I am writing.

-- Robert



- Original Message -
From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Robert:

Have a look at Jetty, or JBoss/Jetty (aka 

Re: A note about the best(?) (cocoon-) development environment ...

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Simmons
Well, I don't want to debate JDO vs. ODMG object mapping. I use JDO as will a
very large amount of other people. Don't judge it when you know little about
it. As for the query language, it blasts any other object based query
language to hell. As for CMP and BMP, you can toss those out the window.
Entity beans are the one blemish to EJB in my opinion. They are poorly
thought out and poorly implemented. In short, all entity beans are basically
crap.

-- Robert

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I'm familiar with BCEL and have used it to speed up JMX and reflection
based applications.
I haven't found the ODMG way to be very slow.  Are we comparing specs
to tools?  Most things can auto-deploy schemas, but very few of my
clients will use such a feature.
We've used several ODMG based solutions to take advantage of a
particular vendors enhancements, or J2C connectors.  I can say that in
the past my team of 3 have used these techniques to deliver
maintainable, workable solutions very quickly.

If you're persisting classes that you don't have control over, nor
access to the class files (don't you need access to manipulate them?)
then I'd be worried about version management and coupling.

But, I'll have another look.  Last thing, it's too bad that with JDO
they have introduced 3 query languages, rather than have one that works
for JDO, CMP-EJB, etc.

Cheers,
Thor HW

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 04:56  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 Yes. That is part of the specification. The enhancement is to byte
 code, not
 to native versions of the code. Therefore any JVM can read the enhanced
 files. You might look at Jakarta's BCEL project to get an idea about
 how byte
 code enhancement works.

 As for the ODMG vs. byte code enhancement, Id have to disagree. The
 thing I
 want out of a persistence project is a fire and forget solution. As a
 consultant, I don't get paid for providing persistence solutions. I
 get paid
 for working on what makes my clients money. Be that web purchasing or
 genetic
 engineering. I am far better off having solutions where I need to
 invest only
 small amounts of thought in how to persist data and do object to
 relational
 mapping.

 In addition, there are instances, many of them, where you have neither
 control of the data that needs to be stored, nor access to the class
 files
 defining these data objects. At which point the JDO approach is far
 superior.
 Lastly the JDO approach provides the ability to reverse engineer
 schemas into
 the cross JDO vendor portable JDO metadeta files. This gives enormous
 power
 when working with legacy databases.

 -- Robert

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 Have you found that it works well for you across JVM versions and
 implementations?  The ODMG JDO works everywhere.

 On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:22  AM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 Point of correction. Class enhancement is not generation per se. The
 actual
 class files are enhanced in place. In other words the byte code
 enhancers go
 into the class files and alter them. The solution elegantly solves
 some nasty
 problems.

 -- Robert

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 Sun JDO JSR-12.


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 Which JDO?  The ODMG JDO (like what Castor uses) or the after class
 generation muck about that is in the Sun JDO?

 Jetty has been using JMX long before Tomcat, it fully supports the
 spec
 ... and I'm thinking it supports it before the reference
 implementation
 does (like the classpath stuff).  Is it superior, I can't say for
 sure
 (but it is the default / preferred servlet engine in JBoss.  I like
 it
 because it takes me less screwing around with jar clashes between
 applications and what the server itself uses (making me less
 dependent
 on their support cycle and changes in where the JDK wants things).

 Cheers,
 Thor HW

 On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:05  PM, Robert Simmons wrote:

 I use JBoss but not jetty. Are you saying the Jetty-JBoss combo is
 superior
 to the Tomcat-JBoss combo? If so, I will definitely go try it.
 Perhaps
 it
 will fix my classpath in XSP issue. Bugzilla Reference:
 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16580.

 Kodo JDO is an implementation of the JDO specification and MORE. It
 basically
 rules.