Re: [Webmacro-devel] Broker changes and stuff

[Keats K. <ke...@xa...>]

Marc Palmer wrote:

>Hi all,
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>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 :-)
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Thanks!  I don't suppose you'd like to do the Freshmeat.net announcement 
as well?

>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.
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This approach does seem nice an clean, however some folks will have 
standard templates that they want to share across webapps.  Maybe we 
could have a configurable option, like 
ServletContextBroker.EnableSharedTemplates.

>Also, there are some issues with the RC1 build which I believe need to be
>resolved before we can release it:
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>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.
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I agree.  I had the same frustration -- trying to dig up the ant 
libraries, etc. 

>2. The current source uses the "enum" keyword in places so this fails to
>build against Java 5.
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>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 :(
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Sounds good.  I was hoping someone would do a Java 5 build.  If you 
can't commit you can send me the code and put it up there.  (I may also 
be able to help with your boring problem if you'd like.  Are you using 
Windoze?)

Keats

>Cheers
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