On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 20:26 +0200, Arik Kfir wrote: > Hello, > > We are thinking about embedding Forrest as a content generation engine > in our software.
Apache lenya is trying to do the same thing. :) I changed the response address to the dev list because we discuss such things in the dev list. ;-) > Currently, the direction we want to take is simply > embedding the Ant runtime itself, and use it to activate Forrest. > > In details we will: > 1. Add the Ant JAR files into our classpath. +1 > 2. Add the xml-forrest.jar to the classpath +1 > 3. Add required JAR files from Forrest's "lib" directory to the > classpath (we're not sure which ones we really need - would appreciate > help on this). That really depends which features of forrest you will going to use. > 4. Create a template project structure (e.g. src/documentation, > forrest.properties, etc) in a temporary directory Why temporary directory? > 5. Activate Ant in code (manually create the Project, etc) to run > Forrest via its standard build.xml file. > you wrote content generation engine, you will use then the normal "forrest"-target you mean? By following this target you will find out which other libs are involved. > Before I start working on this, I was wondering if anyone had any > experience in doing this, or any tips/tricks on the subject. > We are using in the 0.7 plugins to extract additional functionality from the core. Have a look on that. That will give you an idea. HTH > 10x in advance! > Arik Kfir. > > salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
