Some newbie Turbine questions

[Jack Axaopoulos <ja...@cisco.com>]

I'm currently learning to use Turbine & Velocity, and have
a fewof questions.

What is the easiest way to get your application
	to serve up a default page, layout, navigation and screen as
	the starting point to your web app?
	Suppose your URL looks like this <non-tomcat servlet engine path 
stuff>/turbine

	What I did to accomplish this is to set the following in my
	turbine properties file:

page.default = CCFDefaultPage
services.VelocityService.default.page = VelocityPage
services.VelocityService.default.layout = VelocityOnlyLayout
services.VelocityService.default.navigation=VelocityNavigation
services.VelocityService.default.error.screen = VelocityErrorScreen

services.VelocityService.default.layout.template = /CCFSampleLayout.vm


In the Class CCFDefaultPage I coded the following:
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public void doBuild(org.apache.turbine.util.RunData data) throws Exception {

   data.setScreen("CCFDefaultScreen");
   data.setLayout("VelocityOnlyLayout");

     super.doBuild(data);
}

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This setup works for getting the layout, navigation and screen shown
as the initial page which I want.
But I SUSPECT there is a much easier way to do this.

Is there anyway I can set a default template .vm file to show up
without having to write the CCFDefaultPage class which explicitly
calls setScreen()  ???

Also...if I don't execute "data.setLayout("VelocityOnlyLayout");" in the 
doBuild method
I get built in DefaultTopNavigation and DefaultBottomNavigation classes
executing instead of the CCFSampleLayout.vm.
template being used.   Is this right?


Thanks...

More questions later.

J


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More info - Re: Some newbie Turbine questions

[Jack Axaopoulos <ja...@cisco.com>]

So as not to confuse you anymore...

I'm also using my own session validator which
doesnt require any kind of login.

public boolean requiresNewSession(org.apache.turbine.util.RunData data) {
	return false;
}

Thanks...

J


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