Re: shifting some things around under /web (Roller 3.0)

[Max Rudman <mr...@steelbrick.com>]

Here is the link to Sun-prescribed conventions for JSP-based web  
applications:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/ 
code_convention/

I just thought I'd pass it along. :)


Max


On May 26, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Matt Raible wrote:

> On 5/26/06, Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com> wrote:
>> you mean "WEB-INF/jsp" instead of "WEB-INF/jsps", which is what we  
>> use
>> now?  i guess i can change that, but i wouldn't think that matters.
>
> Yes.  I didn't realize we were already using WEB-INF/jsps.
>
>>
>> styles, scripts, and images sounds good to me.  i've already started
>> roller-ui/scripts, and as i move css and img files i'll put those  
>> under
>> styles and images.
>>
>> in some cases i have decided not to lump all css, js, and imgs in the
>> standard directories.  for example, the rte editor has a bunch of
>> resources that it uses and rather than mixing those in with a  
>> bunch of
>> other stuff so that you can't tell what things are being used for,
>> instead i created a special directory for the various editor  
>> resources.
>>   so the rte editor stuff is all under roller-ui/authoring/editors/ 
>> rte/*
>> and if someone wants to add new editors they are encouraged to put  
>> the
>> resources in a similar directory.
>>
>> -- Allen
>>
>>
>> Matt Raible wrote:
>> > I would recommend using WEB-INF/jsp or WEB-INF/pages.  As far as  
>> the
>> > resource directories, I prefer to call them styles, scripts and
>> > images.
>> >
>> > Matt
>> >
>> > On 5/26/06, Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com> wrote:
>> >> guys,
>> >>
>> >> i just wanted to give a heads up that i am shifting a bunch of our
>> >> /web/* resources around in preparation for the work i'm doing  
>> on Roller
>> >> 3.0.  i've already started this work and done just the easy  
>> stuff that i
>> >> was pretty certain everyone would be agreed on ...
>> >>
>> >> 1. moved all the struts ui jsps to the web/WEB-INF/jsps/*  
>> directory.
>> >> we've already talked about this and agreed on it a few months ago.
>> >>
>> >> 2. moved leftover jsps, css, images, etc, to directories under
>> >> web/roller-ui/*
>> >>
>> >> doing this reorg is very important to the requirements of the  
>> new url
>> >> structure implementation because it helps us consolidate the  
>> url space
>> >> in order to help prevent collisions between virtual weblog urls  
>> and real
>> >> resources.
>> >>
>> >> the only decision of any real consequence that i have made so  
>> far is to
>> >> choose "/roller-ui/*" as the single directory that we would use to
>> >> consolidate all of our web resources.  the plan is to put all  
>> resources
>> >> used by the authoring/admin ui (css, js, imgs, etc) under here.
>> >> "/roller-ui/*" is just the name i chose because it seemed to  
>> make sense
>> >> and coincides with our java package naming as well.
>> >>
>> >> does anyone have any objections to this?
>> >>
>> >> -- Allen
>> >>
>>