Re: [Springframework-developer] XMLC Support

[Rob H. <ro...@ca...>]

Fine with me - I only spent a few minutes moving across Rod's original 
code. There have been a few requests for this functionality though, so 
we should probably mention this on the user list and on the forum.

Rob

Juergen Hoeller wrote:

>Guys,
>
>Do we really want to ship this out-of-the-box in Spring core? This is nearly
>1.8 MB of additional third-party jars, half of it cause by the great XMLC
>decision to depend on a repackaged Xerces version...
>
>If I remember correctly, that was also the original rationale for *not*
>including it in Spring in the first place. I think that reason is still
>valid, in particular due to the fact that the AbstractXmlcView base class is
>so extremely thin.
>
>BTW, we don't need an XmlcLoaderServlet or XmlcLoaderListener.
>XMLCContext.getContext(servletContext) creates a new XMLCContext on first
>access but then returns the existing instance. No need to initialize this in
>a separate servlet or listener!
>
>Effectively, a custom View implementation that uses XMLC could look as
>follows - without any XMLC-specific base class shipped in Spring:
>
>public abstract class MyXmlcView extends AbstractView {
>
>  protected void renderMergedOutputModel(
>      Map model, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
>throws Exception {
>
>    this.xmlcContext = XMLCContext.getContext(getServletContext());
>    OutputOptions oo = new OutputOptions();
>
>    XMLObject xo = // creating the XMLObject from the model
>
>    response.setContentType(getContentType());
>    this.xmlcContext.writeDOM(request, response, oo, xo);
>  }
>}
>
>Given how concise this, it seems to me that we really don't need to ship an
>AbstractXmlcView class for this. Showing that skeleton code in the reference
>docs or on the Wiki should be enough...
>
>Juergen
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: spr...@li...
>[mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
>Of Rob Harrop
>Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:34 PM
>To: spr...@li...
>Subject: [Springframework-developer] XMLC Support
>
>
>All,
>
>I just committed basic XMLC support to CVS. This is based heavily on the
>work Rod did in his original book.
>
>Let me have your thoughts.
>
>Rob
>
>
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