----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:45
PM
Subject: RE: [Tapestry-developer]
Reducing the time of the development cycle.
Thanks those are great ideas. I will look into this on
Monday.
Dorothy
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon
Robins
To: Dorothy Gantenbein; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 1/4/03 2:39 PM
Subject: Re:
[Tapestry-developer] Reducing the time of the development cycle.
Hi Dorothy,
Thanks for your response.
I have now changed my set up to the one you describe with one
exception.
I was wary of depending on the hidden
secrets of JBoss as you do in step
3. Instead I have
deployed an unpacked war into the
server/default/deploy directory, this is also the development
environment and thus avoids having two copies of the source.
If you
don't like developing directly into the JBoss
directories it should be
possible to alter the
jboss-service.xml file to point a directory of
your
choice but I've found this to be unreliable.
I was also looking for ways of catching as many errors as
possible
before deployment and to that end I have
spotted that Ant has an
optional task called
<xmlvalidate> which could be used as below:
<target
name="validate">
<xmlvalidate
failonerror="no" lenient="no" warn="yes">
<fileset
dir="WEB-INF/classes"
includes="**/*.page"/>
<fileset dir="WEB-INF/classes" includes="**/*.jwc"/>
<fileset dir="WEB-INF/classes" includes="**/*.script"/>
<fileset dir="WEB-INF/classes" includes="**/*.application"/>
<fileset dir="WEB-INF" includes="web.xml"/>
</xmlvalidate>
</target>
Regards
Simon
>This was a timely question. Our UI designer was
getting very
>frustrated trying to tweak the HTML
associated with Tapestry components
>because of the
long turn around times. Based on the suggestions on the
>list, we developed a process where he could change the HTML and
see
>results in a few seconds.
>
>Here is the process for people using
JBoss/Resin or JBoss/Jetty with
>Tapestry.
>
>1. Change the
JBoss startup script to pass
>'-Dnet.sf.tapestry.disable-caching=true'. When you disable
caching,
>you can change the HTML/page or jwc files
after deployment. Pages are
>rendered a
little more slowly but not too bad.
>
>2. Change war file so that all HTML, jwc, page
files are packaged
>under the war's WEB-INF/classes
directory. When deployed, these
>Tapestry
files can be modified without rebuilding, redeploying or
>restarting JBoss.
>
>3. Go ahead and change the deployed Tapestry files.
After the change,
>refresh the browser page to
force Tapestry to re-load your definitions
>and
HTML. Here are directions for finding the deployed Tapestry files
>
>for Resin and Jetty.
>
> -
If you are using Resin, the deployed Tapestry files are
> located under the
jboss/server/default/tmp directory assuming
> you are using the 'default' server
configuration.
>
> - If you are using Jetty, the location is
located in your Documents
>
> directory. Watch the
deployment and JBoss/Jetty tells you
> where the deployed files are
located. Here a sample of the
>output.
>
> 10:38:50,231 INFO [jbossweb]
Registered
>
jboss.web:Jetty=0,JBossWebApplicationContext=4,context=/asset
> 10:38:50,451 INFO [jbossweb]
Extract
>jar:file:/D:/jboss-3.0.5RC1/
>
server/default/tmp/deploy/server/default/deploy/
>
admin.ear/27.admin.ear-contents/asset.war!/ to
>
c:\DOCUME~2\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\Jetty_0_0_0_0_8080__asset\webapp
>
>4. Make
sure to copy any deployed Tapestry files back to your source
>directories before redeploying/restarting JBoss.
>
>Hope that helps...
>Dorothy
>
