| MailReader-Chain README.txt | |
| This is a work-in-progress demonstration application showing how you can use | |
| Commons-Chain with a web application framework like Struts. | |
| The appication does not rely on the new Struts-Chain request processor, but | |
| this is liable to change as Struts 1.3.x development progresses. | |
| The primary build and documentation environment is Maven. An Ant build file is | |
| provided for integration with IDEs. It can be used from the command line, | |
| but using Maven directly is more efficient. | |
| The web application is built under target/mailreader by the "webapp.war" goal. | |
| For play testing, you may like to point your web container directly to this | |
| folder. Containers like Jetty, Resin, and Tomcat can use alternate configuration | |
| files that you can store with your copy of the repository. | |
| The business logic is tested with JUnit. A set of WebTest Canoo tests are under | |
| development but not working yet. | |
| Note that this application uses multiple configuration files to implement a | |
| "config-behind-story" approach. Each workflow (or "story") has its own | |
| pair of struts-config and validator config files. | |
| For the time being, development is tracked by STATUS.txt file, but we expect | |
| this to be integrated into the Maven documentation shortly. | |
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| /src - source code files | |
| /xdocs - documentation files | |
| /target - build files | |
| /src/java - Source code for production Java classes | |
| /src/resources - XML and property file resources | |
| /src/test - Unit tests for Java classes | |
| /src/webapp - Web application specific files | |
| /src/webapp/ - HTML and JSP assets | |
| /src/webapp/WEB-INF/ - various configuration resources | |
| /src/webapp/entities - WebTest configuration entities | |
| /src/webapp/WEB-INF/struts-config - Struts configuration documents | |
| /src/webapp/WEB-INF/tld - Taglib descriptors | |
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