[jira] Commented: (MSITE-68) Ability to view how the site would look without generating the entire site

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSITE-68?page=comments#action_61013 ] 

Brett Porter commented on MSITE-68:
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reports and all are done. Basically just need to clean up to close this issue out.

> Ability to view how the site would look without generating the entire site
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>
>          Key: MSITE-68
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSITE-68
>      Project: Maven 2.x Site Plugin
>         Type: New Feature

>     Reporter: Arik Kfir
>     Assignee: Brett Porter
>     Priority: Trivial
>      Fix For: 2.0

>
> Original Estimate: 3 hours
>        Time Spent: 1 hour
>         Remaining: 2 hours
>
> It would be nice to be able to run something like "m2 site:run" which would start a process that serves the site dynamically. If you know Apache Forrest, its similar to "forrest run" (as opposed to "forrest site" - which is like "m2 site:site").
> The use case here, is that when writing documentation, it is frustrating to having to generate the entire site every time you make a change - if you simply want to preview the results. A better approach would be a Jetty (or Tomcat?) process that receives the request from a browser, and generates the content lazily. It would make writing m2-style docs a breeze.
> In Maven 1 it would have been almost impossible, but with m2 - it might be possible.
> The only caveat I see here is having to know what report to run against each URL. The only way I see to solve this is having reports expose (via annotations?) the list of files they generate, but that has disadvantages as well.
> Non-the-less - this would be a killer helper plugin.

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