dirkv 2003/11/30 07:24:47 Modified: launcher/xdocs index.xml Added: launcher/xdocs navigation.xml downloads.xml Log: add minimal website Revision Changes Path 1.2 +43 -13 jakarta-commons/launcher/xdocs/index.xml Index: index.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons/launcher/xdocs/index.xml,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 --- index.xml 25 Oct 2002 09:03:21 -0000 1.1 +++ index.xml 30 Nov 2003 15:24:47 -0000 1.2 @@ -1,25 +1,55 @@ <?xml version="1.0"?> - + <document> - + <properties> - <title>Launcher : Java application launcher</title> - <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Remy Maucherat</author> + <title>Overview</title> + <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Commons Documentation Team</author> </properties> -<body> -<section name="Introduction"> -<p>The <em>Launcher</em> Component is designed to be a cross platform Java -application launcher.</p> -</section> - -<section name="Initial Source of the Package"> + <body> +<section name="The Launcher Component"> +<p>The Launcher Component is designed to be a cross platform Java +application launcher.</p> <p>The original Java classes come from the Jakarta Tomcat 4.0 project.</p> -<p>The proposed package name for the Launcher component is -<code>org.apache.commons.launcher</code>. +<p> +Commons-launcher eliminates the need for a batch or shell script to launch a +Java class. Some situations where elimination of a batch or shell script may +be desirable are: +<ul> + <li>You want to avoid having to determining where certain application paths + are e.g. your application's home directory, etc. Determining this + dynamically in a Windows batch scripts is very tricky on some versions of + Windows or when softlinks are used on Unix platforms.</li> + <li>You want to avoid having to handle native file and path separators or + native path quoting issues.</li> + <li>You need to enforce certain system properties e.g. + <code>java.endorsed.dirs</code> when running with JDK 1.4.</li> + <li>You want to allow users to pass in custom JVM arguments or system + properties without having to parse and reorder arguments in your script. + This can be tricky and/or messy in batch and shell scripts.</li> + <li>You want to bootstrap system properties from a configuration file instead + hard-coding them in your batch and shell scripts.</li> + <li>You want to provide localized error messages which is very tricky to do + in batch and shell scripts.</li> + </ul> </p> +<br/> +</section> + +<section name="Releases"> + <p> + See the <a href="downloads.html">downloads</a> page for information on obtaining releases. + </p> +<br/> +</section> + +<section name="Documentation"> + <p> + The <a href="apidocs/index.html">JavaDoc API documents</a> are available online. + </p> </section> </body> 1.1 jakarta-commons/launcher/xdocs/navigation.xml Index: navigation.xml =================================================================== <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE org.apache.commons.menus SYSTEM '../../../jakarta-commons/xdocs/stylesheets/menus/org-apache-commons-menus.dtd'> <project name="Commons Launcher"> <title>Commons Launcher</title> <body> &top-menus; <menu name="Commons Launcher"> <item name="Overview" href="/index.html" /> <!-- <item name="Configuration" href="/configuration.html" /> --> <item name="API Documentation" href="/apidocs/index.html"/> <!-- <item name="Developers Guide" href="/guide/index.html" collapse="true"> <item name="Class Diagrams" href="/guide/classdiagrams.html"/> <item name="Sequence Diagrams" href="/guide/sequencediagrams.html"/> </item> <item name="Examples" href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons/launcher/doc/"/> --> <item name="Downloads" href="/downloads.html"/> </menu> &bottom-menus; </body> </project> 1.1 jakarta-commons/launcher/xdocs/downloads.xml Index: downloads.xml =================================================================== <?xml version="1.0"?> <document> <properties> <title>Downloads</title> <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Commons Documentation Team</author> <revision>$Id: downloads.xml,v 1.1 2003/11/30 15:24:47 dirkv Exp $</revision> </properties> <body> <section name="Releases"> <p>There are no releases available.</p> <!-- <p>The following releases are available:</p> <ul> <li>Version 1.1 - 20 October 2003</li> <li>Version 1.0 - 12 August 2002</li> </ul> <br/> <p> The latest binary release is always available on the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi#commons-launcher"> Jakarta Binary Downloads page</a>, its source is available from <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi#commons-launcher"> Jakarta Source Downloads page</a>. </p> <p> Older releases are retained by the Apache Software Foundation but are moved into a <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/launcher/"> special archive area</a>. </p> --> <p> <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/nightly/commons-launcher/"> Nightly source and binary drops</a> are available. </p> <p> Access to the source tree to see the latest and greatest code is possible through <a href="cvs-usage.html">anonymous CVS access</a>. </p> </section> <!-- <section name="Release Candidate"> <p> Release candidates for the upcoming 1.1 release can be downloaded <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/~dirkv/builds/">here</a>. </p> <p> Please review and report any problem on the <a href="mail-lists.html">mailing list</a>. </p> <p> Final release target is 20 October 2003. </p> </section> --> </body> </document>
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