[Opensource] Designing Expresso Applications

[Thompson, Kris]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: albert Arhin [mailto:albert_k_arhin at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 6:07 AM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: [Opensource] Designing Expresso Applications
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>       I have been reading alot lately about Expresso
> this is because I am determined to adopt it fully.
> 
> I have downloaded all the documentations and
> applications and what I have noticed is that there is
> no mention of designing one's application from his on
> try i.e base my application on base
> schema,DBOjects,Controllers and States that inherit(or
> implement) those from Expresso and then proceed from
> there. Thus building your own object Tree.
> 
>  I am asking this question because all the examples
> (contacts,orange trader) and components
> (epoll,esearch,eforum) plug directly into the expresso
> tree. Is this the best practice ?

Not anymore.  Eforums build file along with the Expresso build file have been modified to no longer need to plug into the framework directly (copying eforum source into the Expresso tree).  Let it be an example as to how to build components into Expresso. This fix is currently only in the CVS HEAD version of the project along with the docs on howto but if you really want to know look at the build.html doc in expresso-web/expresso/doc/

I think what you are asking for is great.  My guess is that each developer has their own way of building/war'ring their components with Expresso but a best practice would be helpful for beginners.

Kris
> 
>  Also the documentation on the new features seem to be
> hard to get.Any body has examples on the new features
> ie workflow ,etc.
> 
> Thanks 
> Albert
> 
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