Re: [Melati-announce] Melati 0.6.1 Released

[Myles C. <my...@pa...>]

At 11:58 PM 6/11/02, Tim Pizey wrote:
>Hi, 
>
>Melati 0.6.1 is available from http://www.melati.org/
>This release enables Melati to be used with MckoiDB (http://www.mckoi.com/) 
>and HSQLDB (http://www.hsqldb.org/).

Wonderful. Was there a lot to change?

>In addition I have bundled jetty and hsqldb into the distribution, so that 
>the examples (and the rest of the website) work straight out of the box.
>You will need the latest version of ant (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/).
>This 'ant and go' approach is the first step towards a comprehensive 
>Melati Developer's Kit.

That's a big breakthrough. 


>The site and examples are also available for download as a war, 
>it would be great if I had some feedback on the steps involved in 
>dropping the war into Tomcat. 

The point about a war is that you should just be able to put it in
the right directory and it'll just work. See Tomcat docs for more
info, but webapps/ seems likely.


>I have made the website prettier and more readable, and removed the 
>Server Side Includes in favour of my own invention: 
>Ant parsed html.

Very nice indeed. It's looks great. There's a lot more stuff there
than I'd realised.

>I have removed all deprecated methods except those required for backward 
>compatibility with JSDK 2.0 and enabled compatibility with JSDK 2.3, and 
>hence the latest version of Velocity (1.3rc5)
>
>I have started to review the javadoc and moved it back within the org/melati 
>heirarchy.

Mmm. Personally, I'd rather see the docs not live in the source tree. I think
they should be in their own directory in the distribution (/docs/api perhaps)
and should be built by Ant to their own directoy.

>Please have a play, I am desperate for feedback, preferably before I 
>announce to other lists. 

I think the latter parts of the installation document might be slightly out
of date, now. Is this right?



>cheers
>timp

Cheers,
Myles