On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 16:20, Thai Lam wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on a class project for a software paradigms class. > This project, that was assigned to us is to build a web application using > the Apache Avalon Framework. I've been reading what is available on the > Apache site for the past week and have pretty much come to a stopping > point. The latest presentation that Pawl Karendys created was a good help > as well, especially in finding out that Avalon Framework does not require > Apache Merlin. That is correct right?
Yep. Merlin is built on top of the framework. Here's another way to think of it: Tomcat is built on the servlet spec. You don't need tomcat to write or compile a servlet, but if you want to run a servlet, you'll need to run it inside of Tomcat or some other servlet container. This analogy can only be taken so far, but think of the servlet spec as Avalon framework and Merlin as a container (for Avalon components) like Tomcat is a container for servlets. <snip/> > What I don't understand now, is how to tie everything in together. How do > I get the jsp web tier pages to access information from components within > the framework? Okay, Okay. I've been promising to put together examples on this for a while. If you can just hold out a couple more hours I'll have them on the site soon! :) > If Framework does not require Merlin, then how do I use Apache Framework > to create this web application? > If Framework does require Merlin, how does that work as well? Do the jsp > pages have to execute the Merlin commands? How about I use the forth coming example to answer these questions? > Another question is, how do you integrate these components together if > you had to use Fortress with Framework? Does it matter where you install > or unzip the files? Is there a configuration file that you would need to > edit? I'll show Merlin and Fortress examples. > Unfortunately we only have a month's development time for this project and > I'm trying to try to figure out how everything interacts together so that > the final product is a web service that uses the Avalon Framework. > > Sorry for so many beginner questions, but I've gone through the present > documentation and have only really moved slightly further in my > understanding of this framework. No, completely understandable. Keep the questions coming and it will give me (us) more motivation for better docs. There's some material already in the Merlin tutorial. I would work through that first. -- jaaron <http://jadetower.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
