Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n template compilation problem

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

> having the ability to install Bod when running Tomcat with a JRE is 
> better
...than precompiling templates? Do you think we shouldn't precompile 
Mathew?

> I think is probably the way to go as it is the "standard" Java way of 
> loading i18n properties files
yes, agreed. See my next email about TMX!

Alistair


On 24 May 2005, at 14:04, Matthew Buckett wrote:

> Alistair Young wrote:
>> It seems that when you pre-compile the templates, it breaks i18n.
>> This is due to the local build path being used to initialise the  
>> resource file paths:
>> WEB-INF/template_classes/working/style_default_default/ 
>> template_useroptions.java:
>> String resourceFile =  
>> "/Users/alistair/dev/sourceforge/Bodington/build/bodington/templates/ 
>> style_default/default/lang/null/useroptions.properties";
>> this is never going to work as resourceFile as defined above doesn't  
>> exist when you deploy.
>> it works if you don't compile the templates and let bodington compile 
>>  them itself as and when needed.
>
> This does cause another problem though, if someone is running tomcat 
> and bodington in the directory /usr/local/tomcat and decides to move 
> tomcat to /home/tomcat then all the templates stop working.
>
>> There are two ways round this:
>> 1) Don't pre-compile templates - bod can do it anyway
>
> I'd say that if we are trying to make Bodington as easy as possible to 
> install having the ability to install Bod when running Tomcat with a 
> JRE is better.
>
>> 2) I change i18n to put resource files in the classpath so the full  
>> path isn't required. That means the resource files will be separate  
>> from the templates and we'll need a new WEB-INF/classes directory 
>> where  one didn't exist before.
>
> I think is probably the way to go as it is the "standard" Java way of 
> loading i18n properties files.
> We don't need to have the files expanded under WEB-INF/classes, it 
> just makes things easier for people who want to do translation.
>
>> anyone got any opinions?
>
> Silly question ;-)
>
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