[daisy] Basic help for adding a class to daisy

[Valerie Nyre]

Hello

You might remember me - I am the text writer with a little Javascript 
skills.
Can you give a quick hint for me to get started while creating my first 
Java program to add to Daisy ?

What I would like to do:
I want to add more custom field validation to a document's fields and 
hoped to find a hook to add my own tiny little CFORMs fragments.  I did 
manage using the guestbook and the mailing list example and Javascript 
to create a new document part using input fields with CFORMs and basic 
CFORM validations. But to edit and still validate the existing document 
part I would rather rely on the Daisy WIKI's handling of document 
access. loading, locking, saving.


As I see, we can add fieldeitors and parteditors (for text/xml). But I 
see that I need to implement a Java class to become a "happy editor".  I 
think I could manage extending the sample program for the Plaintext 
editor, but I am not sure about how to integrate the new part editor 
class into Daisy. The same applies to my attempt to implement a custom 
field editor.

My question is:
Do I still need to build Daisy system anew in order to add my "JAR" to 
the daisy or can I just "drop" the JAR into Cocoon and then reference 
from daisy?

My references are:
[daisy] Re: Survey extension sample [was: Collecting inputs of a survey: 
how to store a form databean in a document part?]
daisy_Part Editors: 235-cd.pdf
daisy_Field Editors: 563-cd.pdf



Thank you for your attention


Valerie Nyre
Maas High Tech Software