Re: working with custom blocks

[Michael Wechner <mi...@wyona.com>]

Upayavira wrote:

>Michael Wechner wrote:
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>>Hi
>>
>>I have created my own block for Cocoon-2.1.X, but realized that I have
>>to patch the following files:
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>>gump.xml and lib/jars.xml
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>>and also have to copy libs to lib/optional
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>>
>>Is there a way that one does not have to patch these files? Or am I
>>missing something?
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>No. Now do you see why we need a decent blocks system in 2.2? :-)
>
>Actually, you can copy your jars into lib/local 
>

that doesn't seem to work if the block contains Java sources
based on such a library

>and I believe they'll
>get copied into the WEB-INF/lib. You probably don't then need to edit
>jars.xml.
>

well, if one copies the library into lib/optional, then one
needs to edit jars.xml. I guess I will write a little ant process
to automate "patching" ;-)

Thanks

Michi

> But gump.xml will need to be updated if you want your block to
>be built by Cocoon's build process.
>
>Regards, Upayavira
>
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