[xdoclet-user] Newbie question on plugins and templates

[karthik Guru]

Hello All,

ok now that am perusing through the source code, I think I have a slightly better understanding now :) . I need to see how the xdoclet ant task is implemented though. I'm a newbie so please bear with me.

Ok a quick question,

I was looking at the ejb plugin and velocity template for local/remote interfaces. The first line is

#set( $class = $metadata )

Now if my understanding is correct $metadata is probably Qdox's JavaClass? So this velocity template probably gets invoked with the JavaClass instance for every source file encountered?

I looked at the EjbJarXmlPlugin.jelly file too.

Here $metadata represent a collection of metadata of all the entity beans identified by the fileset?.

How does generama / whatever  knows that plugin to generate local interfaces needs to be called in a loop with a JavaClass instance while plugin to generate ejb-jar.xml needs to be called 'once' with a collection of JavaClass instances?

<j:jelly xmlns:j="jelly:core">
    <ejb-jar>

        <enterprise-beans>
            <j:forEach var="class" items="${metadata}">

<!-- rest ignored -->

thanks,
karthik


On Sun, 22 May 2005 Anatol Pomozov wrote :
>I would write such article If I were English native speaker. But my
>English far from perfection.
>
>TOALL. Do you know that xdoclet Confluence wiki has write permissions
>for registered users??? So anyone of you can add documentation which
>will be included later in official release bundle. Registering in
>Confuence takes several minutes. You have possibility improve docs and
>help xdoclet project.
>
>On 20 May 2005 17:42:07 -0000, karthik Guru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > thanks! Let me see if i can get it to work. It would be great if one of you
> > guys, during spare time, start working on a detailed xdoclet 2.0 article.
> >
> > - karthik
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 20 May 2005 Anatol Pomozov wrote :
> >
> > >I am using xdoclet during last 4 months and I would say that happy
> > >with it (support of Hibernate3 is great).
> > >
> > >But as you said the documentation is very poor, its true.
> > >With xdoclet bundle (see link below) goes rich set of tests where you
> > >can find usecases for using xdoclet. Also on xdoclet.codehaus.org
> > >Confluence contains pages with list of supported tags for all official
> > >plugins.
> > >
> > >Latest official release you can find at sourceforge server
> > >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=88133&package_id=92059&release_id=324707
> > >
> > >
> > >On 20 May 2005 15:22:43 -0000, karthik Guru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  Hi All,
> > > >
> > > >  I looked at the 2 minute tutorial and i want to put xdoclet 2 to use.
> > > >  But somehow i'm not able to find any of the jars listed in the sample
> > build
> > > > file in the tutorial. Could you please point me to the location where i
> > can
> > > > download these jars?
> > > >  Also is there a detailed tutorial to use xdoclet 2.0 somewhere
> > > >  or is too early to use xdoclet?
> > > >
> > > >  thanks
> > > >  karthik
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >anatol
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>--
>anatol