Reposting this info with more details.
So the 10,000 foot perspective is that we are creating a conversion
tool to convert the prior openejb-jar.xml into the new set of
descriptors (geronimo-openejb.xml, new openejb-jar.xml, jpa entity-
mappings.xml). It is expected that all existing plans will work and
no one will have to or even *should* migrate just yet.
We are doing this for two reasons:
1. There is significant investment in current descriptor format.
These come to mind:
- TCK
- DayTrader
- iTests
- Samples
- All documentation to date
- All user-land apps to date
2. The new plans will not be stable for a good long while.
Primary reasons are:
- Continued work in integration (security, webservices,
corba, etc.)
- Continued work implementing JavaEE 5
So the big motivation for the conversion tool is that with some hard
work from Dain and I up front (and for a while really), we can save a
few hundred developer and user hours over the next couple months.
We're very close to having something running and hope to see
something basically working by the end of the week.
If we're really lucky after this week we can hide all the change
under the conversion tool and no one (but the people working on and
maintaining the conversion tool that is) will have to feel the pain
or frustration while things move underneath. As we enable things
like security people won't have to update their plans, we'll just add
more conversion logic to port that information over and put it into
action.
I can say that the spirit of the new descriptor files is to fully
embrace the "anti-descriptor" focus of Java EE 5 and to be as small
and contain as little requirements as possible. Hopefully when the
day comes to move over (not soon), it will more be a matter of
deleting than adding. There will definitely be lots of
experimentation in that area, so we'll see.
As always, thoughts and questions very welcome and encouraged.
-David
On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
I just checked in the working converter for CMP beans. There is a
fairly extensive test suite that converts the OpenEJB2 itests,
daytrader and the OpenEJB2 CMR mappings tests. For example, here
are the mappings for daytrader
ejb-jar.xml
-----------
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openejb/trunk/openejb3/
container/openejb-core/src/test/resources/convert/oej2/cmp/
daytrader/daytrader-ejb-jar.xml
openejb-jar.xml
---------------
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openejb/trunk/openejb3/
container/openejb-core/src/test/resources/convert/oej2/cmp/
daytrader/daytrader-openejb-jar.xml
And the final JPA mappings
--------------------------
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openejb/trunk/openejb3/
container/openejb-core/src/test/resources/convert/oej2/cmp/
daytrader/daytrader-orm.xml
I hope to have the converter fully integrated into Geronimo in by
the end of the week.
-dain
On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:01 PM, David Blevins wrote:
On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:07 PM, David Blevins wrote:
Keep your ejb related plan files intact or a copy of them at
least. I'm going to try and write a conversion tool that will at
least handle trivial apps. A non-trivial app would be one with
CMPs. The new mapping.xml format for cmps is the jpa mapping.xml
and converting that will be a little more work.
Nothing done yet, just announcing intentions.
Ok, have a little progress on this. So far I am able to convert:
- <environment> and children
- <security> and children
- <gbean> and children
- <message-destination> and children
- <persistence-context-ref> and children
To see same converted document, look here:
source: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openejb/trunk/
openejb3/container/openejb-jee/src/test/resources/openejb-jar-2-
full.xml
result: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openejb/trunk/
openejb3/container/openejb-jee/src/test/resources/geronimo-openejb-
converted.xml
It was a bit of work getting JAXB2 to work with our schemas
because of duplicated elements combined with the fact that we
allow invalid xml (i.e. no namespace at all). So I actually had
to write a invalid 2 valid xml converter before I could get
started on the openejb-jar.xml to geronimo-openejb.xml converter.
Things should go faster from here. Will hack more in the morning.
Not sure what the effort is going to be to convert the cmp
information as that is a openejb-jar.xml 2 jpa mapping.xml
conversion. Hoping Dain might have some input on that.
-David
