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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Lars Huttar <la...@sil.org> on 2004/10/19 19:11:22 UTC
more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and clear-cache command.
Hi all,
For a long time I didn't know about the
"cocoon/samples/clear-cache.html" URL. I kept shutting down Tomcat and
restarting it in order to clear the cache. :-/
Suggestion to make this and a couple of other things more intuitive:
- Put a link to the "status" page on the Cocoon main page. "Samples" is
not an intuitive place to look for servlet status.
- On the status page, in the section that tells about the cache, include
a link to clear-cache.html. Likewise to clearpersistentstore.html. This
would make more sense than putting these commands on the samples page.
- It might be useful, too, to have a link on the "status" page to show
the output of xalan:checkEnvironment(), to show more details about the
versions of various components (Xalan, Xerces, SAX, etc.) being used.
I would be happy to make a patch for this if someone wants to commit it.
Lars
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Re: more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and clear-cache command.
Posted by mvaterlaus <mv...@gmail.com>.
Hi Tony, hi all,
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:14:17 -0500, Tony Collen <co...@umn.edu> wrote:
<snip/>
> > - It might be useful, too, to have a link on the "status" page to show
> > the output of xalan:checkEnvironment(), to show more details about the
> > versions of various components (Xalan, Xerces, SAX, etc.) being used.
> >
>
> This also sounds like a good idea. A long time ago I was throwing
> around the idea of making something like PHP's "phpinfo()" page that
> shows a ton of useful information about the system. Perhaps we could
> figure out something like this that would show the system environment,
> the container info, etc...
I would really appreciate such a solution. Why not move all the
informal and management stuff like status page, link checker or the
possibility to clear the cache to a section of its own called
"management"? The according files would be moved in a dedicated
directory with a sitemap of its own.
Markus
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Re: more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and clear-cache command.
Posted by Tony Collen <co...@umn.edu>.
Lars Huttar wrote:
> Hi all,
> For a long time I didn't know about the
> "cocoon/samples/clear-cache.html" URL. I kept shutting down Tomcat and
> restarting it in order to clear the cache. :-/
>
Lots of stuff is buried.
> Suggestion to make this and a couple of other things more intuitive:
> - Put a link to the "status" page on the Cocoon main page. "Samples" is
> not an intuitive place to look for servlet status.
+1
> - On the status page, in the section that tells about the cache, include
> a link to clear-cache.html. Likewise to clearpersistentstore.html. This
> would make more sense than putting these commands on the samples page.
+1
> - It might be useful, too, to have a link on the "status" page to show
> the output of xalan:checkEnvironment(), to show more details about the
> versions of various components (Xalan, Xerces, SAX, etc.) being used.
>
This also sounds like a good idea. A long time ago I was throwing
around the idea of making something like PHP's "phpinfo()" page that
shows a ton of useful information about the system. Perhaps we could
figure out something like this that would show the system environment,
the container info, etc...
> I would be happy to make a patch for this if someone wants to commit it.
I'd be more than happy to commit it :)
Tony
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Re: more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and clear-cache command.
Posted by Lars Huttar <la...@sil.org>.
Joerg Heinicke wrote:
> On 19.10.2004 19:11, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> For a long time I didn't know about the
>> "cocoon/samples/clear-cache.html" URL. I kept shutting down Tomcat
>> and restarting it in order to clear the cache. :-/
>>
>> Suggestion to make this and a couple of other things more intuitive:
>> - Put a link to the "status" page on the Cocoon main page. "Samples"
>> is not an intuitive place to look for servlet status.
>> - On the status page, in the section that tells about the cache,
>> include a link to clear-cache.html. Likewise to
>> clearpersistentstore.html. This would make more sense than putting
>> these commands on the samples page.
>> - It might be useful, too, to have a link on the "status" page to
>> show the output of xalan:checkEnvironment(), to show more details
>> about the versions of various components (Xalan, Xerces, SAX, etc.)
>> being used.
>
>
> Good ideas, but I fear switching off the samples removes also this
> functionality, i.e. these links are not available without samples. So
> we should either make them available, i.e. drag them out of smaples
> sitemap and drop them in root or whatever sitemap. Or we should remove
> the links on the start page when the samples are excluded.
>
> Joerg
>
Would anyone else like to pick this up and either commit my patch or
else improve it and then commit it?
Tony Collen was going to do it but has gotten bogged down in work.
(See below for explanation of attached files.)
Thanks,
Lars
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fwd: Re: more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and
clear-cache command.]
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:57:24 -0500
From: Lars Huttar <la...@sil.org>
Organization: SIL
To: colle006@umn.edu
Hi Tony,
I wasn't sure of the best way to make patches to the Cocoon source ... I
have my machine set up for Subversion rather than CVS.
Anyway, I think the attached files should do it.
cocoon-udiffs.txt [contains diffs on the files I changed, in unified diff format.]
These diffs are done relative to src/webapps in the Cocoon 2.1 source
tree (grabbed today via CVS).
WARNING: my modifications to welcome.xml are wrong in that they modify
data that is generated from elsewhere. But I don't know where it's
generated from. Do you know and if so can you modify the source?
It really wasn't my intention to get into learning how Cocoon is built,
so I'm hoping you know... :-)
The other attached files, sitemap.xmap and checkEnv.xsl, go in a new
folder, src/webapps/tools.
Any suggestions about these changes are welcome.
Thanks,
Lars
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and
clear-cache command.
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:28:17 -0500
From: Tony Collen <co...@umn.edu>
To: Lars Huttar <la...@sil.org>
References: <41...@sil.org>
Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>
> Hi Tony,
> What should I diff against to create the patch?
> I've finished the modifications, but they're modifications to the Cocoon
> (build/webapp) folder, which doesn't exist in the Cocoon sources from CVS.
>
Check in your cocoon directory:
src/webapp/
Tony
Re: more intuitive place for Cocoon status page and clear-cache command.
Posted by Joerg Heinicke <jo...@gmx.de>.
On 19.10.2004 19:11, Lars Huttar wrote:
> For a long time I didn't know about the
> "cocoon/samples/clear-cache.html" URL. I kept shutting down Tomcat and
> restarting it in order to clear the cache. :-/
>
> Suggestion to make this and a couple of other things more intuitive:
> - Put a link to the "status" page on the Cocoon main page. "Samples" is
> not an intuitive place to look for servlet status.
> - On the status page, in the section that tells about the cache, include
> a link to clear-cache.html. Likewise to clearpersistentstore.html. This
> would make more sense than putting these commands on the samples page.
> - It might be useful, too, to have a link on the "status" page to show
> the output of xalan:checkEnvironment(), to show more details about the
> versions of various components (Xalan, Xerces, SAX, etc.) being used.
Good ideas, but I fear switching off the samples removes also this
functionality, i.e. these links are not available without samples. So we
should either make them available, i.e. drag them out of smaples sitemap
and drop them in root or whatever sitemap. Or we should remove the links
on the start page when the samples are excluded.
Joerg
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