[WebMacro-user] Melati

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Hi Tim,

Melati has a lot of potential. I can see this. But you need to 
incorporate adoptability factors. Here are some points which should be 
really easy to take care of. All of these comments apply to 0.7.2. The 
WebMacro 2.0 version will be 7.3 or some larger number when we get it 
running.

In readme.html:

Add:

1) Precise documentation for using a new database connection. (Where is 
the connection property file???)

2) Clear documentation about what files are editable to create a clean 
install and customization

3) A sample creation of a "hello new data table" application following 
the melati model.

I will be out most of monday. You have enough to chew on.

Get melati working with 7.2 out of the box or send me some docs to be 
added to readme.html so that we can make melati more adoptable out of 
the box.

Re the current Development Version
==========================

The development version of Melati with WebMacro 2.0 is unable to find 
templates in WEB-INF/classes. This is another issue that relates to the 
overall release quality (not working in the the current release for 
other reasons).

http://localhost:8080/melati/org.melati.example.contacts.Search
is the url which fails.

It is clear why this is failing. WebMacro starts up and cannot find 
anything in its current CLASSPATH:

     [java] 8:03:49 PM  LogFile NOTICE  --- Log Started ---
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  broker  NOTICE  starting org.webmacro.Broker: 
WebMacro.properties
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  broker  NOTICE  Loaded settings from 
WebMacro.defaults,WebMacro.properties, (System Properties)
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  wm      NOTICE  new 
WebMacro(WebMacro.properties) v2.0b1

     [java] 8:03:49 PM  resource        WARNING BrokerTemplateProvider: 
Template not found: 
org\melati\template\webmacro\templets\html\org.melati.poem.StringPoemType.wm
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  resource        WARNING BrokerTemplateProvider: 
Template not found: 
org\melati\template\webmacro\templets\html\org.melati.poem.SizedAtomPoemType.wm
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  resource        WARNING BrokerTemplateProvider: 
Template not found: 
org\melati\template\webmacro\templets\html\org.melati.poem.AtomPoemType.wm
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  resource        WARNING BrokerTemplateProvider: 
Template not found: 
org\melati\template\webmacro\templets\html\org.melati.poem.BasePoemType.wm
     [java] 8:03:49 PM  resource        WARNING BrokerTemplateProvider: 
Template not found: 
org\melati\template\webmacro\templets\html\java.lang.Object.wm
     [java] org.melati.template.TemplateEngineException: 
org.melati.template.TemplateEngineException
     [java] org.webmacro.PropertyException: Attempt to invoke method 
public java.lang.String 
org.melati.template.MarkupLanguage.input(org.melati.poem.Field) throws 
org.melati.template.TemplateEngineException,java.io.IOException on 
object org.melati.template.HTMLMarkupLanguage raised an exception: 
org.melati.template.De

I cannot test the production version to compare. I routinely add 
templates to WEB-INF/classes so I think this is a jetty config issue.

thanks!


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Lane Sharman
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