lo,

is there any working solution for integrating cocoon blocks (esp. authentication-fw, session, databases) into forrest 0.8 by now?

I found an example for forrest 0.6 on the net @ http://www.batlin.com/forrest/blocks.html and an older wiki entry @ http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/AddingCocoonBlocksToForrest, but these solutions do not seem to work for me.

Furthermore i found some interesting discussions on the mailing lists about integrating cocoon blocks by forrest plugins, but no lead to any results...

The Problem i ran into following the suggestions from http://www.batlin.com/ is, that building the authentication-fw and session block in cocoon (2.1.7), also seems to change the cocoon-2.1.7.jar itself.

Without adding the cocoon-2.1.7.jar to forrest i get errors like:
SCHWERWIEGEND: Errors during initializing Apache Cocoon 2.2.0-dev : Unknown component type 'session-manager' at file:/C:/apache-tomcat-6.0.10/webapps/enter/WEB-INF/xconf/forrest-core.xconf:848:51
...
(i added things to the forrest-core.xconf)

And then by adding the cocoon-2.1.7.jar to forrest i get the following error:
SCHWERWIEGEND: Servlet /enter threw load() exception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Lorg/apache/excalibur/instrument/manager/DefaultInstrumentManager;
...

I run this forrest project as webapp => these failures show up in tomcats localhost.log

Any thoughts?

thx
llamar