quintonm 2003/03/11 11:08:23
Modified: xdocs index.xml
Log:
- Added more text to make Turbine look more attractive to the developer who
comes wandering in from the main page, looking for a web application
framework.
- Broke long lines into shorter ones.
- Misc updates
Patch supplied by Jeff Linwood
Revision Changes Path
1.13 +38 -12 jakarta-turbine-site/xdocs/index.xml
Index: index.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-turbine-site/xdocs/index.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.12 -r1.13
--- index.xml 22 Feb 2003 18:00:28 -0000 1.12
+++ index.xml 11 Mar 2003 19:08:23 -0000 1.13
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
<properties>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Martin Poeschl</author>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Quinton McCombs</author>
+ <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeff Linwood</author>
<title>Jakarta Turbine</title>
</properties>
<body>
-<section name="Jakarta Turbine">
+<section name="Jakarta Turbine Web Application Framework">
<p>
Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
@@ -18,6 +19,25 @@
as well. In other words, we strive to make portions of Turbine
easily available for use in other applications.
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ Turbine is an excellent choice for developing applications that can use a
+ services-oriented architecture. Some of the functionality
+ provided with Turbine includes a user and security management system, a
+ scheduling service, and an XML-RPC service for web services. It is a
+ straightforward task to create a new service yourself.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ The Turbine core is free of any dependency on a presentation layer
+ technology. Both JavaServer Pages (JSP) and
+ <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/";>Velocity</a> are supported
+ inside Turbine. For developers that are already familiar with JSP, or have
+ existing JSP tag libraries, Turbine offers support for the Sun standard.
+ Velocity is the favorite view technology of most users of the Turbine
+ framework; try it out and see if Velocity can help you develop your
+ web applications quicker.
+ </p>
<p>
Turbine is developed in an open and participatory environment and
@@ -28,7 +48,7 @@
involved, <a href="/site/getinvolved.html">click here</a>.
</p>
-<subsection name="Versions">
+<subsection name="Downloads and Versions">
<p>
There are several versions of Turbine currently available for download.
</p>
@@ -47,17 +67,18 @@
<p>
<strong>Turbine 2.3</strong>.
- <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2.3/";>Turbine 2.3</a> will
- be the next feature enhanced release. Starting with Turbine 2.3 we no
- longer support freemarker, webmacro and castor. So if you use one of these
- services you should switch to the supported services now.
+ <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2.3/";>Turbine 2.3</a>
+ will be the next feature enhanced release. Starting with Turbine 2.3 we
+ no longer support freemarker, webmacro and castor. So if you use one of
+ these legacy services you should switch to the supported services now,
+ such as Velocity, JSP, or Torque.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Turbine 3.0</strong>.
- <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-3/";>Turbine 3.0</a> is the
development
- tree, has <strong>not been scheduled for release</strong>, and is
- not (yet) recommended for use in a production environment.
+ <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-3/";>Turbine 3.0</a>
+ is the development tree, has <strong>not been scheduled for release</strong>,
+ and is not (yet) recommended for use in a production environment.
</p>
</subsection>
@@ -66,8 +87,13 @@
<section name="Jakarta Turbine Torque">
<p>
- Torque is a persistence layer. Torque generates all the database resources
- required by your application and includes a runtime environment to run the
+ Torque is a persistence layer that will generate all of your value object
+ classes and O-R mapping classes from a single XML definition file.
+ Torque can eliminate many of the problems developers have with keeping
+ database and value object code in sync, and it doesn't require developers
+ to write Data Access Object (DAO) code. Torque helps the developer meet
+ their project goals quicker, by providing an infrastructure framework.
+ Torque also includes a runtime environment to run the
generated classes.
</p>
@@ -77,7 +103,7 @@
<a href="http://db.apache.org/";>db.apache.org</a>
</p>
-<subsection name="Versions">
+<subsection name="Downloads and Versions">
<p>
There are several versions of Torque currently available for download.
</p>
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