Mike Casey wrote:
Can anyone tell me the experiences they have had with running cocoon
with spring? In particular, how did you get Spring to run Cocoon and how
was this deployed under tomcat? Does the spring MVC framework get in the
way of things? Or could they possibly complement each other?
The simplest integration is probably to initialize the Spring
application context in web.xml with a ContextLoaderListener:
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
Then you can get access to the application context from anywhere you
have a cocoon Context object, e.g. from flowscript:
var appCtxt = cocoon.context.getAttribute(
Packages.org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE
);
var myService = appCtxt.getBean("myServiceBean");
There are also other techniques for getting access to Spring managed
services; do a search for "spring" at http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon for
some examples.
The next major version of Cocoon (2.2 or 3.0, not sure what it will end
up being labeled) has actually been changed so that it uses Spring
internally for its component management, so the integration should be
that much cleaner.
In terms of Spring MVC, I don't know how it and Cocoon would play
alongside each other, since Cocoon is itself an MVC framework.
Personally I've never seen a need to use Spring MVC when I've got such a
good one in Cocoon. :) I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has had
experience combining them though.
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