On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi thorsten > > it looks _deeper_ than what i had in my mind > i would like to take all look, but i have not play with forrest (until > now) so please give me some time .. to come back with my impressions from > forrest >
Be our guest. ;-) Forrest is pretty straight forward. We are introducing a new plugin infrastructure for the upcoming 0.7 release. The mentioned plugin are using this new feature. The plugins are still in early stage and we are open for all feedback and help. If you need more information just subscribe to the user/dev lists of forrest. ;-) salu2 > regards > > stavros > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I had a look on the wiki page you posted > > http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/TemplateBasedWebSite and it gave me some > > really good > > ideas for the view plugin I am working on in forrest. > > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.view/?rev=160476 > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.leather/?rev=160476 > > > > Together with another plugin (right now called leather but will be > > renamed to ViewHelper) it is following the DispatcherView pattern > > http://java.sun.com/j2ee/patterns/DispatcherView.html and building a > > unit. > > > > I am using right now a different approach then you but it seems we are > > trying to solve the same problem. > > > > Have a look at > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.view/src/documentation/default.fv?view=markup > > > > That is a view on a site. The link is the default view for the site but > > you can define a new view for each page of your webapp. > > > > A view basically contains three tags (for now - it is in a really early > > stage): > > <forrest:view > > xmlns:forrest="http://apache.org/forrest/templates/1.0"; type="xhtml"> > > <forrest:contract name="meta"/> > > <forrest:hook name="container"> > > <forrest:contract name="feedback"/> > > </forrest:hook /> > > </forrest:view> > > > > The view tag's @type determines the final output format. The idea is to > > configure different output formats via a view. That is the biggest > > different to your approach. > > > > Each forrest:hook will be transformed into a <div/> tag (in html > > output). This tags are designed to help web-designers to freely move > > around and group contracts into design container. > > > > Each forrest:contract will dispatch a xml file (ViewHelper) that contains > > xsl:stylesheets for the different output formats, a contract can > > implement. For html, the only format that I have implemented so far, we > > have three different kind of templates: > > > > <xsl:templates name="{contract/@name}-css/> > > Here the contract specific css will be stored. > > > > <xsl:templates name="{contract/@name}-head/> > > Here goes everything that belongs in the html head. e.g. scripts. > > > > <xsl:templates name="{contract/@name}-body/> > > Everything that belongs into the body. > > > > e.g. > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.leather/resources/templates/fontsize.ft?view=markup > > > > > > The view follows exactly the pattern shown here: > > http://corej2eepatterns.com/Patterns2ndEd/DispatcherView.htm > > Right now it is implemented for the forrest way of producing the models > > for the view but I am planing to create independent BusinessHelper to > > access all BusinessServices you may have in your application. > > e.g. > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.leather/resources/templates/feedback.ft?view=markup > > > > shows that the $config has to be in the presentation model. Right now there > > are only forrest core BusinessHelper. > > > > One workaround is > > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.leather/resources/templates/feedback-dyn.ft?rev=159861&view=markup > > where I pass the models via <xsl:param name="main"/> into the ViewHelper. > > That > > > > salu2 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
