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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:05:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Poetz <reinhard@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Servlets, Sitemaps, and Spring in trunk
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Max Pfingsthorn wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been looking at trunk to find out how things work these days and
> it looks great, but I am a bit confused. It seems like the blocks can
> register their own servlet to handle requests, is that true? 

yes There is
> a suspicious xml file in META-INF/cocoon/spring in each sample. But
> how does spring, or is it avalon, know that this servlet should be
> used at all? Through DispatcherServlet? 

The DispatcherServlets scans the Spring application context for all beans that 
are of type "Servlet" and looks for a proropety "path". If both conditions are 
fulfilled, the servlet is registered.

> It doesn't seem to work right
> now though, at least not if I use the cocoon-webapp. 

IIRC the Cocoon webapp hasn't been moved to use the servlet-service framework 
completly.

> Is there an easy
> way to make it work? I'm trying to do some json stuff, so a "detour"
> through cocoon would not be so great.

Do you want to provide your own servlet service that doesn't use Cocoon 
sitemaps? Have a look at the servlet-service-sample module which already 
contains a sample that uses a "non-sitemap" servlet.

-- 
Reinhard P�tz           Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach 

{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}

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