[Ginp-developers] Char Encodings.

[Doug C. <d.c...@na...>]

Dear Justin,

I have changed all refs for ISO encodings to UTF-8.  This is because I 
now understand the UTF-8 encoding after RTFM.  I do not think this is a 
problem for the XML files because they are all ASCII.  The Char Map plug 
in in jEdit is missleading as it does not display UTF-8 correctly.  I 
will try to get some translation stuff done.  This is not much work at 
the moment because there is not a lot of text in the files.  This will 
help us expand our potential user base, and it is fun.

I had a fresh look at how to do a database based application and again 
there is some very interesting work going on in the FOSS world.  I had a 
look at turbine from apache and it looks like a good place to start.  I 
think it is worth making the ginp use a database independent layer if we 
can.  I would have to start the db application stuff from scratch so 
using turbine or hibernate is less rather than more work in the short 
and long term.  In the passed I have had an XML database definition 
which I used to auto generate data entry forms.  Each data type is an 
object etc...  I think this is fairly standard.  Special forms can be 
done with taglibs ad custom JSP pages, but most data entry stuff is 
handled with the standard auto generated forms and search facilities.  I 
am sure you have your own ideas about how to do this so please give me a 
brain dump and project names so that I can RTFM, and we can progress 
this together. 

If you are doing documentation of how the application works (or will 
work) maybe you could add it to the docs/ or Notes.txt so we can publish 
it with the project.  I am sure that this material will be useful to 
developers trying to understand how the application works so that they 
can customize it.

As for the bugs in the perfs interface I have no idea how to solve 
this.  I would say that the wizard writes the ginp.xml file into the 
WEB-INF folder.  Therefore If there is a file there use it if not then 
it need to run the config wizard.  This hard codes the config file which 
is not great but I have no other bad ideas at the moment.  It is however 
an easy thing for me, ginp users and the java virtual machine to understand.
 
I have a Skype (internet telephone) account.  I am dougculnane.  If 
needed we could try this to discuss stuff.  However the chat thing 
worked very well, so maybe this is the best facility.

Happy Hols,
 
Doug

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