RE: How do you compile HTML to Java class with XMLC?

Our company is in the process of reviewing 4 web app frameworks.  It's
amazing to me that it is taking hours trying to figure out how to
compile a single HTML file into a single class file with XMLC on a
Windows machine.

Is there a way I can use the ant xmlc taskdef to compile a brand new
little test case html file into my own package/path?

For example, I stuck the HTML in:

c:\barracuda\src\swett

It would be great if it would compile the html into:

c:\barracuda\WEB-INF\classes\swett

It would also be great if I could just override an ant build.xml file
property to do the compilation.  Such as, with current directory at
c:\barracuda\src:

ant -Dsrc.package.path=swett xmlc


For a company just getting into web apps, but having already reviewed
two other frameworks, it would be nice to have an easy way to run XMLC.

Is there a whole different way to go about it, instead of through an ant
task?  For example, is there a way to just do a command like this:

xmlc mypage.html

and have the package/class end up in the same folder as the html?


Or should I be trying to run ant's "xmlc.sub" task to do a quick little
compile?  Is there such a thing as a quick little compile?

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Cryder
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Barracuda] How do you compile HTML to Java class with
XMLC?

> Is in the BUILD.XML file that you indicate which directories to hunt
for
> HTML files?

Yep. I'm attaching a sample build.xml from a typical project that uses
Barracuda...you can see how we copy the mockups to a target directory,
and
then XMLC compiles from that. Look for  the mockps.compile target.

CHristian
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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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"Coffee? I could quit anytime, just not today"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Steve Swett
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Barracuda] How do you compile HTML to Java class with
> XMLC?
>
>
> OK, I see that if I use "ant xmlc" while the current directory is
> "c:\Barracuda\src" that it will recompile all HTML files in the
> "C:\Barracuda\src\org\enhydra\barracuda\tutorials\xmlc" folder.
>
> The result is a class file with the org.enhydra... package name.
>
> It doesn't want to compile the html files if they are in different
> directories.  If I move my HTML to that directory, it will compile,
but
> it gives the long package name.
>
> Is in the BUILD.XML file that you indicate which directories to hunt
for
> HTML files?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Barracuda] How do you compile HTML to Java class with
> XMLC?
>
>
> You should really post a question like this to the XMLC list, but I'll
> answer it here anyway.  This is configurable via the command line.  If
> you
> use the XMLC taskdef or Barracuda's Localize taskdef (which extends
the
> XMLC taskdef), then the behavior you want will happen automatically.
> Check
> out the Ant build files in the examples of XMLC-2.2RC1 release to see
> how
> to use the XMLC taskdef.
> http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/xmlc/
>
> I can't quite remember all the command line parameters offhand.  I've
> used
> the Ant tasks for so long that running XMLC directly on the command
line
>
> seems almost foreign to me at this point.
>
> BTW, xmlc.enhydra.org hasn't been updated in a while.  It will be
> updated
> for the XMLC-2.2 release to point to the objectweb site which is the
new
>
> home of the XMLC CVS code and all downloads.  Only the mailing list is
> used
> at xmlc.enhydra.org currently.
>
> Jake
>
> At 02:08 PM 8/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Is there anything already in the Barracuda package distribution that
> can
> >be run to compile:
> >
> >
> >
> >myTest.html
> >
> >
> >
> >to
> >
> >
> >
> >myTestHTML.class
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >& or do I just download XMLC from xmlc.enhydra.org, compile the html
to
>
> >myTest.class and then rename the class to myTestHTML.class?
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
>
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