[Helma-user] helma 2 - alpha 1

[Michael Platzer]

>
> So one more prerequisite before getting started in a meaningful way,
> at least as far as the JS-coding part is concerned, is to get a useful
> Helma 2 core snapshot out.
>
> Documentation about Helma 2 alpha 1 core functionality is available here:
>
> http://dev.helma.org/Wiki/Helma+2+alpha+1/
>
> It's not complete, so I'll try to bring it up-to-date today. How many
> of you have already looked into Helma 2 core in one way or the other?
> What were your experiences?
i just took a look at the current SVN-version. some (random ordered) 
feedback:
* calling 'ant jar' threw an error, due to a missing junit-3.8.2.jar in 
ANT_HOME/lib
* configuring jetty via jetty.xml is a big improvement, since it allows 
us to leverage all features of jetty; on the other hand i am at the 
moment not familiar with the configuration, and am a bit puzzled while 
looking at it
* when calling http://localhost:8080/ then the content from 
/web/public/index.xml was being called, and return as text/plain. when 
calling http://localhost:8080/index.html directly the content is being 
returned as text/html.
* it took me a while to figure out, how to call the js-test-file: 
http://localhost:8080/test.js ; how does helma2 decide whether the 
request is static or dynamic?
* it seems that session-management does not work yet; i can access 
'session' as an object, but no session-cookie is being stored; and 
calling session.id throws an error
* req.getHeaders returns nothings; req.headers seems to work fine;

as soon as there is some templating-engine and a working 
session-management, i could do some more testing. at the moment, it is 
not obvious to me which are missing features and what is to be 
considered a bug.

besides that, i really enjoy the cleanness of helma 2, and am looking 
forward to helma 2 alpha 1.

greets,
  michi