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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:32:26 +0200
From: Daniel Fagerstrom <danielf@nada.kth.se>
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Reinhard Poetz wrote:

> Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:

<snip/>

>> To be able to start I need some deployed blocks and a wiring.xml 
>
> see
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/src/schema/wiring-schema-1.0.xsd 
>
>
> This should be the contract.
>
>> to test things against. Do you have any suggestions about how to 
>> achieve that? 
>
>
> after reading "The Pragmatic Programmer" we should follow Hunt's and 
> Thomas' "tracer bullets" idea: we setup a complete system and make the 
> key parts working ASAP and show that the the concept works. (!= 
> prototype!!!)

Have not read that one, but I had something like that in mind.

> In concrete, if I were you, I would write the wiring.xml by hand, make 
> sure that it validates against the above schema (note: this schema is 
> NOT carved in stone - it should be driven by *your* needs and not 
> mine!) and put it into /WEB-INF/blocks/wiring.xml.

Sure. I thought that if you allready had something working or almost 
working we could use that. But until then I'll write something by hand.

> The wired blocks have an attribute "location" which only supports file 
> locations:
>
> <block id="http://mycompany.com/webmail/1.3.43"
>          location="./384938958499">
>
> which could point during development whereever you want to:
>
>
> <block id="http://mycompany.com/webmail/1.3.43"
>          location="../../../bla/myBlock">
>
> I'd propose http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/src/test/

I go for that.

<snip/>

> the contract is the XML schema (cob-schema and wiring-schema). As long 
> as they don't change, there shouldn't be any problems on both sides.

Ok, I had some remembrance that we had decided to have a particular 
directory structure on the COBs, but I couldn't find any documentation 
on that, do you have any link or example?

/Daniel