[xmlWiki-developers] Foundation classes

[James J K. <Kal...@ca...>]

Here are some thoughts I had concerning really basic classes that everyone
will use.  These are just my thoughts, not the result of pair work, so they
are just suggestions at this point.

Class   -   Description

WikiPage   -  Encapsulates one page, however that is represented, and will
be passed around from the database, parser, HTML generator, etc...

WikiContext   -  This would be a singleton which would contain common
configuration information.  Users typically call getInstance() on it, and
then use that object to learn about the environment, policies/setting, and
get references to other objects.

WikiDB  -  Abstracts the database functions.  One would probably call
getLocalDB() on a WikiContext object to get a reference, and then this
class would handle page creation/deletion/retrieval/update.  I would expect
that most of the functions would be passing WikiPage references.  The guts
of this class would then attach to a production DB, text file interface,
etc.

Those are just some ideas, and I think that the Create/Save work will use
all of those concepts.  Let me know if I'm out in right field compared to
your perspectives of the foundation classes.

Unit Testing---I've used JUnit and SUnit quite a bit with good results, but
for servlet and other web work we'll need something to augment those test
fixtures.  On the Apache site I saw references to both HTTPUnit and
something called 'Cactus', and I wanted to know if anyone has experience
with those or other test setups that accommodate web development.

Regards,
Jim Kalafut