EOB

[Stephen McConnell <mc...@apache.org>]

Stephen McConnell wrote:

>>>
>>> I can easily make plain components work in Phoenix, but as you have 
>>> seen with Merlin, viceversa is not painless.
>>> Can Merlin use EOB?
>>
>>
>>
>> I dunno, I suggestd to Stephen that he tried it a couple of week ago :-) 
>
>
>
> EOB includes BlockContext which means that additional meta-info is 
> required for these components to run inside Merlin.  The solution to 
> this involves the following:
>
>  * add .xtype descriptors to the EOB distribution (these contain the 
> information describing the depedencies that the EOB blocks have - 
> including the dependency on the Phoenix BlockContext interface and 
> Phoneix conterxt keys)
>  * use the patched version of cornerstone that I'm maintaining (the 
> patched version also includes the .xtype declarations in order to 
> solve the same issues and provide convinient deployment profiles for 
> some of the conterstone components) 


One point I forgot to mention is that EOB does not publish the 
components it provides under its manifest

If you include a .xtype (i.e. additional info to handle context 
information) then you could declare this as follows:

   Name: net/sourceforge/eob/core/DefaultApplicationRepository
   Avalon: Type

If your using blockinfo declarations Merlin will recognize the Phoenix 
pattern (but this will only work if you component does not reference 
Phoniex APIs).

   Name: net/sourceforge/eob/core/DefaultApplicationRepository
   Avalon-Block: true

Cheers, Steve.

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Stephen J. McConnell

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