I started with Merlin a some weeks ago and have been trying to figure things out and I'm working in Eclipse which made things far more difficult for me and here is what I can tell you:
- Are there Eclipse example projects somewhere between the size of the MerlinDeveloper tutorial and James showing how to: I don't think so. And the fact the people using Eclipse may not want to follow the directory structure that is being followed in Avalon project,makes it even harder to work in Eclipse. But The MerlinDeveloper plugin can help. And if you are done with the Merlin tutorial available on the website then there is a web-server example available which is a bigger application. - What about generating the .xinfo automatically? This seems to be something that was done in excalibur and in cocoon but is undefined when using MerlinDeveloper? Outside Eclipse .xinfo files are generated by maven tasks defined in the plugins that come with Merlin , not absolutely sure where it's happening. So you might want to try to configure those tasks are external tools in Eclipse. MerlinDeveloper does generate the .xinfo for the components that you define when you create you project for the first time, but I don't think it would update or generate .xinfo files as you change or add more components. - Does Merlin still need maven? To the best of my knowledge, yes it very much uses Maven for its building process. But this makes things a bit difficult to work in inside Eclipse. - Does Maven supplant Ant? Yeah pretty much. I think a majority of the apache project are now using maven, at least most the Avalon projects are. - The Merlin wiki is very sparse. Is there some documentation beyond the avalon/merlin pages at apache.org like a PDF or something to help get a grasp on concepts. The pages at apache have concepts but suffer in that they do not show those concepts going into small projects. Merlin uptake is going to suffer as long as this is so. The wiki, the website and the mailing list. That all there is right now. And the developers pretty much understand this problem and are working on it. After looking at all the docs on the website, the next stop is this list. If you can identify the issues you need info on then post those in the list. Guys here know that Avalon can freak people out and so are very helpful and you probably would get answers pretty soon. And if you get more insight about using Merlin in Eclipse, pls keep posted as I'm sailing in the same boat. Vikas -----Original Message----- From: john tal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Merlin and going from MerlinDeveloper tutorial to a larger app General Merlin/Avalon questions: - Are there Eclipse example projects somewhere between the size of the MerlinDeveloper tutorial and James showing how to: - Add hierarchal config entries to block.xml (if possible) like <component><configuration><jdbc><driver>xyz</driver></jdbc></configuration>< /component> I can only get my code to work omitting the level at jdbc as configuration.getChild() does not seem to suppot ("jdbc/driver") - Reference a larger set of configuration data from block.xml. It is very confusing as James shows james-*.xml files that are not in the Merlin directory scheme - What about generating the .xinfo automatically? This seems to be something that was done in excalibur and in cocoon but is undefined when using MerlinDeveloper? - Does Merlin still need maven? - Does Maven supplant Ant? - The Merlin wiki is very sparse. Is there some documentation beyond the avalon/merlin pages at apache.org like a PDF or something to help get a grasp on concepts. The pages at apache have concepts but suffer in that they do not show those concepts going into small projects. Merlin uptake is going to suffer as long as this is so. ?? thanks in advance John --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
