Re: [Bodington-developers] Spring again

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
> I like the bs_spring approach for core stuff and I've started on a  
> plugin architecture using spring.e.g. I have to do a chat plugin  
> where you can see who's online and initiate chat with them.

Plugin in what sense?

 > Well that
> sounds like something you'd want to do in something else too, not  
> just bod.

Yep.

 > So it would be nice to have it as a parallel "app", http://
> bod.org/plugins/chat or whatever.

Not a tool in the bodingtno sense that can be deployed at multiple URLs?

 > As it's in the bod webapp space it
> has access to the global soup, in the sam way the gx idp has. IOC  
> would be used to load in a bod connector when running as a bod plugin.

Don't you want to inject the need classes into your plugin as then you 
don't have to use BuildingContext.getContext()...

> Plugin spring controller acts as a facade/router to get to the  
> plugins. Much the same way as a struts relay action.

Yeah I didn't switch to using spring for any of the backend layers 
although I would be keen on doing this.

> One thing you could do that would be really helpful is list the files  
> I need to extract to put into our head. I've found most I think but  
> I've prolly missed some too.

Not got a good list I'm afraid and the branch that has the spring stuff 
on has lots of other changes on it as well. It will be easier once I 
have tied up stuff here.

> The FC has a the grooviest of groovy tools he wants to do as a spring  
> app rather than a native bod tool so we want to run the spring stuff  
> here on dev.clan.

Spring App?


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