[Tm4j-developers] New site layout

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

Hi all,

I have finally managed to get the automatic conversion of our sitemap top=
ic=20
map(s) into a website. You can see the results at http://tm4j.org/tm4j.ht=
ml.=20
Many thanks to Florian Haas and Thomas Bauer for their work on the layout=
 and=20
information design (not to mention much of the content!).

There is still a lot of work to be done - getting more FAQs written up,=20
getting "news" topics integrated, integrating the javadoc topic map and m=
ore=20
tightly integrating the developer's documentation. Anyone inspired enough=
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what we have so far to want to volunteer to help would be very welcome ;-=
)

I would be interested to hear your comments on the site both in terms of=20
layout and content. My feeling is that once we have a "news" topic map=20
integrated we are ready to go live with it and can then carry on expandin=
g it=20
as and when we like.

Technical details:
Because SourceForge does not support a servlet container on their hosted =
site,=20
the pages are all statically generated and uploaded in a single batch. Th=
e=20
actual mechanism for creating the website is basically Velocity with some=
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extensions to make it easier to work with topic maps. The source topic ma=
ps=20
themselves can be found in CVSROOT/tm4j/resource/topicmaps/sitemap.
End technical details.

Cheers,

Kal
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Kal Ahmed, tecqhuila.com
XML and Topic Map Consultancy

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