Re: Requirements for implementing Cocoon Blocks

Nicola Ken Barozzi <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:41:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.apps.devel,gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.devel
Organization Apache Software Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Paul Hammant wrote:
> Stefano,
> 
>> Cocoon needs a way to deploy cocoon-based web application at runtime.
> 
> 
> It looks like Cocoon's kernel will need to move outside the servlet 
> context then.   

It already is IIUC, we use an environment abstraction.
There are still some things to clean out, like the dependency on a 
specific enviroment of a couple of components, but it's not a big problem.

> Some separation of Cocoon kernel services from Cocoon 
> using webapps with (I'm guessing) the need for some Avalon lifecycle 
> interfaces to be honored for this type of Cocoon deployment. 
> Particularly ServiceManager.

Sorry Paul, I don't get this. Too concise ;-)
Could you please expand? Thanks.

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