From: Dan <dan...@gm...> - 2008-08-29 13:40:23
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Adam, Yes, I agree that setting up some type of compressed zip file standard like a war file and a installation utility is a worthy effort. My hope is that we would also add some web content management type application standards like exist for On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote: > Hi Dan I would be interested in supporting any efforts in any way I can. > > I asumme you are suggesting that deploying an eXist webapp should be > as easy as deploying a WAR to Tomcat? > > It may be possible to create a package that contains all the files > nessecary for an eXist webapp, e.g. a backup of the app from the > database, any dependant jar files and any additional conf options and > a small webapp tool to import these into eXist and manage them. > Obviously the tool would have to take care of prompting the user for > input for any security or config changes, such as adding modules, > users etc, but this could be done in a user friendly way. Basically > some sort of webapp package management. > > I like the idea of "eXist Web Apps" as standalone distributable files. > > So for example, I could send you KillerApp.eXwa and you could open the > admin client, tool or whatever and click Add Webapp and just give it > that file :-) > > Or perhaps you are looking for a tool, that will build an installable > eXist or WAR that contains eXist and the webapp all pre-configured? > > Or maybe both? > > Cheers Adam. > > > 2008/8/29 Dan <dan...@gm...>: > > Hello fellow eXistians, > > > > I have been building small eXist web applications for a while now and > have a > > small collection of them that I would like to potentially share with > > others. Things like a requirements manager, glossary term manager, task > > manager, user manager, role manager, blog manager, pattern library > manager > > etc. They all have XForms front ends and XQuery backends with REST > > interfaces and also use some basic folder standard structures. I like to > > think of them as little managment "applications" and I would like to make > > the process of sharing them as easy sending a zip file to friends that > just > > add them to their web site. It should be almost as easy as adding a > plugin > > to Eclipse. But now I have questions like how to make things like > sitemaps, > > permissions and site-wide search easy to integrate and manage. > > > > Has anyone else run into this issue and do you have thoughts on how we > > should go about this? For example, should each application have its own > > app-config.xml file? Please let me know if you are interested in > > collaboration in this area. > > > > Thanks! - Dan McCreary > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Exist-open mailing list > > Exi...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/exist-open > > > > > > > > -- > Adam Retter > > eXist Developer > { England } > ad...@ex... > irc://irc.freenode.net/existdb > -- Dan McCreary Senior Enterprise Data Architecture and Strategy Consulting (952) 931-9198 cell: (612) 986-1552 da...@da... http://www.danmccreary.com |