Mailing-List: contact dev-help@cocoon.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@cocoon.apache.org
From: "JD Daniels" <jd@datatrio.com>
To: <dev@cocoon.apache.org>
Subject: OJB Block (Or Java Dev/OO Newbie Questions
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:48:23 -0900
Message-ID: <HBEOIOMFBCIJPCAJOMHOKEHPCEAA.jd@datatrio.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In-Reply-To: <EF5E4164-035C-11D8-B1A4-000393D2CB02@apache.org>
Importance: Normal

Hey all,

I have been trying to get OJB to work under cocoon with MySQL. I have
finally succeded (to a certain extent)
However, I am very quickly getting confused.

The woody OJB block sample uses:

var factory =
cocoon.getComponent(Packages.org.apache.cocoon.ojb.jdo.components.JdoPMF.ROL
E);

Now I kinda spied out that the component manager is going the way of the
dodo in favour of a sequencemanger type thing...

So my working bit is :

var factory = new Packages.org.apache.ojb.jdori.sql.OjbStorePMF;

So my questions to more experienced Java developers are:

1.) Why would we make a block for this? It seems the block simply calls OJB
itself. Since OJB is not part of cocoon, it would make sense to invoke it on
its own.

2.) I am working on the first part, which is basically a user list that I
use with the authentication framework. This part would a good idea to give
back as sample. If I do that, do I need to make it a block now?

Now before you guys answer..... I am a poor hack->click-reload->hack PHP
guy... I love OO and java but it is a struggle :S

JD