New user, a lot of questions, some suggestions, some bugs?

Ok, I'm new at evaluatting ccm and it's associated programs, I do have very
little experience with ACS (I studied the code and
architecture while I was trying to get it installed a while back).  Some of
these may be attributed to my limited familiarity
with the product and if anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.  Fore
reference, I'm evaluating on win2k against postgresql on solaris
will be deploying to either solaris or redhat if I proceed with ccm.

This is pretty long, I think it contains some bugs, some things I can't
figure out and some questions I have all in an effort
to get me started a little faster.  I hope someone can help.  I left out
things I liked and compliments since this was long enough
alrady so let me just say, so far I like what I see.  With openacs I had a
hard time getting it to almost work once.  from the first
day with ccm I was able to get a good deal up and running.


-- ccm-portalserver

Clicked on Site administration -> Manage Portals got:
java.lang.RuntimeException: no path to XSL stylesheet found; try modifying
/WEB-INF/resources/stylesheet-paths.txt

Seems like portal-sitemap directory and xsl file doesn't exist under
__ccm__/apps

Created the directory structure and copied a file from portal-create and
that got me passed the exception.  The html isn't rendered perfectly but it
works.

Some portal questions I hope someone can answer... On a fresh install, when
a user first registers, their portal is blank, is there
a way, to configure the default user portal that doesn't involve modifying
the portal-server code?  If not is this something
that is commonly done?  Also being able to set up a default portlet or a way
to automatically inherit based on groups/roles would be nice.

Is there support for the portlet spec?  Can you drop in third party
portlets?  If not, is there a timeline to do this?

-- ccm-cms

I create a content type with different content items.  Author it, including
uploading an image, aprove and publish it but I only see
the title and pretty name in a pink box.  I got the impression from clicking
around that this would be enough but apparently that's
not the case.

-- ccm-faq

Can't for the life of me get this to load using ccm.  It builds fine,
deploys fine, Every thing seems to be there.  I'm installing
from zip files and extracted the latest bin.zip.  I'm testing this on
windows so I renamed the files to get rid of the AUTO-date
in the jar and directories.  It's in the ccm.classpath file and in the
ccm.webapps file correctly.  All the other applications I loaded were
found except ccm-faq.  Any ideas?

-- ccm-forum

builds fine, deploys fine (I think) but when I try and ccm load it I get:
2004-03-24 20:59:35,843 [ main] INFO  packaging.Loader - Running initializer
com.arsdigita.forum.Initializer
2004-03-24 20:59:36,515 [ main] INFO  packaging.Loader - Running data loader
com.arsdigita.forum.Loader
2004-03-24 20:59:42,015 [ main] WARN  SECURITY - 2004-03-24 20:59:41.828
no-IP-available User -200 does not have the admin privilege  on Object
[com.arsdigita.kernel.ACSObject:{id=49}] with context null


I think I managed to get it going by calling -init --data on it's own after
it failed but I can't seem to access anything.  The forums weren't
deployed under the ROOT directory.  Instead they were deployed to a
ccm-forum directory on the same level as root.  How do I install
ccm-forum successfully?

also I can't figure out how to access the application that is built on this
foundation.  (i.e. The one jsp file I put to see if I could see it)
:)  I tried http://server:port/ccm/appname/file.jsp and /appname/file.jsp
without any luck.  Doesn't have to do with ccm-forum but I
have a feeling it's the same problem.

-- building modules (core, cms, etc) from souce

Works fine.  My only complaint is that when I ran ant deploy I expected it
to be deployed to /usr/share/java  Is there a target in
the ant buildfile that will do this because I couldn't seem to find one.
While I could modify the ant scripts or create new ones
to do this it would be nice to have this behavior out of the box.

-- development

Is there a document on contributing code?  If I make changes to the base
applications do they have to be given back.  The reason I ask
is that I can see myself making a lot of little tweaks here and there that's
more for look and feel.  There are some application
components that I'll develop as seperate units that might be useful to
other's though.

-- developing sites

the -sql.jar -pdl.jar files don't get added to ccm.classpath in the project
directory.  Need to update them manually.  (at least on windows)  I do have
etc/ccm/ccm.classpath and ccm.webapps


-- Deploying

These are some things I either haven't figured out how to do (in the few
days I've been looking at it) or would like to see it do.
If someone knows how to do this I'd appreciate the input

I get the sense that since a lot of the base architecture was moved over
from a aolserver/tcl base some of the features of deploying
on a J2EE architecture aren't being exploited and may be cause for some
unnecessary work and awkwardness.  A lot of it reminds me
of application servers that were around in the days before J2EE became a
standard.

I think it would ease deployment to various environments (devel, testing,
staging, production) if the resulting build was easily
made into an independant war file that didn't need to have ccm hostinit
calls.

Same with the ccm load calls.  If I could make a suggestions, I think it
would be nice to see all the perl tools get converted to
java beans.  Beans that could be used in tools such as Eclipse and NetBeans
as well as on the web.  The ideal scenario would be that
you install the war file with your Datasource defined in your containers
configuration.  When you access the application for the
first time you'll log in and be prompted to configure it (ccm load).  You
can choose from the available projects that were deployed
in thw war file.  Or maybe even deploy the different peices in seperate war
files?


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