[Webmacro-devel] Broker changes and stuff

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

Hi all,

FYI I added a 2.0 RC1 release announcement to the SF news feed for WM,
nobody else seems to have done it. I know there is at least 1 site that
takes the SF WM RSS feed :-)

I'm working on this new ServletContextBroker implementation. My plan is
that templates will never be loaded from a ClassLoader, only by
ServletContext.getResource. I think this is a cleaner model, i.e. people
should put their templates in places like <webapp>/ or
<webapp>/WEB-INF/templates but not in <webapp>/WEB-INF/classes.

Also, there are some issues with the RC1 build which I believe need to be
resolved before we can release it:

1. The -src distribution does not include libs required to build WM. I
believe the distribution should include everything needed to build it.
This means concurrent.jar and servlet.jar should be in the -src distro's
/lib dir. I take it some people will object. What say you? Spring has a
very good approach in that everything (and more) is there. You should
certainly be able to download WM src and run build.xml and have it build.
It doesn't, you need JARs first.

2. The current source uses the "enum" keyword in places so this fails to
build against Java 5.

I assume there will be no objections to me tackling item 2 - I will do it
now, but I can't commit to SF at the moment, very very boring CVS SSH hell :(


Cheers