Re: Tapestry embedding into Merlin?

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> we would like to write a local admin client to our components (possibly via
> JMX).
> It would be nice to be able to use tapestry for that.
> 
> Has anyone embedded Tapestry with maybe the HTTP-facility or should you
> start a webserver (see the JettyWebServer thread)?
> 

Short answer is we haven't embedded Tapestry.  Can we?

To answer that, I'm going to have to read up on Tapestry and get back 
with you.

The motivation behind the HTTP-facility is to provide a vehicle for 
HTTP-driven services (similar in concept to message-driven services), 
whereby a merlin facility starts an embedded instance of a Jetty web 
server and provides hooks for a component developer to build a special 
merlin component that is basically a servlet (servlet-as-component). 
Meta information allows the assembler of a merlin application to 
associate an HTTP application path with the servlet component.  At least 
this is the idea.  We're not quite there, but not too far away.  We've 
recently moved the Merlin codebase from CVS to SVN, and then killed the 
Maven build system and replaced it with a homegrown build system, so 
some of this unfinished business has gotten put on hold.  I hoping to 
finish up this facility in the very near future.

Let me do some reasearch on Tapestry, and I'll report back on what I 
think is need to get Tapestry plugged into the HTTP facility.

Regards,
Timothy