Re: [Bodington-developers] bodington newby

[Naomi M. <na...@sm...>]

> how the system hangs together and generates the html pages

It all starts with the monstrous org/bodington/servlet/facilities/=20
Facility class, get used to it you'll be seeing a lot of it.  If you =20
look in the bodington/tomcatadd/webapps/bodington/templates/=20
style_default/default directory, you'll find lots of html files which =20=

are known as templates, these use methods in the Facility class to =20
generate html pages dynamically.

For instance in an html file you'll see code like the following:

			<call>
                             <target method=3D"methodName">
                                 <variable name=3D"facility"/>
                             </target>
                             <parameters>
                                 <variable name=3D"request"/>
                                 <variable name=3D"writer"/>
                             </parameters>
                         </call>

This tells the template to go to Facility and to the method =20
(methodName) above.  This method will (usually) output lots of =20
hideous html - viola!  The generated html files are preceded with =20
bs_template_ at runtime. i.e. menu.html would become =20
bs_template_menu.html.

The thing I did at first was track through the code starting from a =20
template class and then to Facility.  Things are slightly complicated =20=

by the fact that these are 2 flavours of template too, 'old' and =20
'new', the code above is the easiest thing to look for IMO.

Are you deploying on Windows?

Naomi  (newby too).


On 21 Jun 2006, at 10:35, Ian Boseley wrote:

> Hi,
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> I am completely new to Bodington. However I am having diffculty =20
> trying to understand how the system hangs together and generates =20
> the html pages. I have been looking into the code and it doesn=92t =20
> seem very intuitive. Is there any documentation available, =20
> including a database schema, for developers?
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> I have scoured the bodington Wiki and the bodington.org site but =20
> there seems to be little information generally available for the =20
> developer.
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> I have imported the source into my deveolpment environment, =20
> eclipse, but am unable to deploy locally to my tomcat server. I =20
> have been building a .war file using the build.xml everytime I want =20=

> to see what affect a change I have made to the look and feel of the =20=

> site which is really slowing the process down.
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> Can somebody tell me the file/package structure I need in eclipse =20
> to deploy directly to my local Tomcat installation?
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> Hope someone can help.
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> Ian
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