Hi,
We are developing multiple web applications and will host them as different products.
I am currently in the process of developing a framework which will be used by the developers as the base for developing the web applications. Some functionalities like logging, exception handling, service locator, taglibs, Data AccessManager i intend to put in the framrwork.
we will have a framework.jar which will be used by the web applications.
This will make the life of the developers working on differnet products easy and also ensure smooth maintainability of the different products as they basic framework will be same across all.
are there any sites which can give some general tips for doing this job effectively specially for exception handling, logging and build environment?
one issue i m facing is that the common web resources (eg. tlds) cannot be included in frameework.jar, rather they have to be copied in the WEB-INF folder of the web application. i am copying the web resources at buil time from framework source folder to web application.
any other features except from the ones listed above which can be a part of framework?
i know the question is vague
any suggestions/comments are welcome.
thanks
ps: btw we r using spring on web and business layers and IBatis on data access layer.