[Cobricks-devall] Cobricks configuration / plugin concept - Cobricks applications

[Michael K. <ko...@in...>]

Hallo Cobricks developers,

since more and more applications of Cobricks are coming up, it is time 
to provide separate development environments for such applications (that 
means, the applications Webspace and configuration stuff should be 
separate from the Cobricks basic distribution - only a JAR file of the 
basic distribution should be imported into the applications).

I have started to work on this - The idea is the have separate cvs 
modules for the projects, a separate build environment etc - A project 
should just consist of Webspace, overriding configuration files - and 
optionally additional sources.

During the work I found that our configuration management is not fit for 
the task - The initial configuration (currently in conf/COMPONENTNAME/*) 
should be closer to the package of the component itself. So, I changed 
this configuration management - In conf there will only be 
"localproperties.txt" and optional additions to the ontologies - the 
rest (including the database table definitions) will be in the home 
package of the component (e.g. src/org/cobricks/user/*).

Does anybody of you have experiences/additional ideas on Cobricks 
applications / configuration management that should be incorporated in 
the new version? If yes, then contact me - otherwise stay tuned for the 
release of the new code in a week or so.

Michael Koch