Thanks for the reply (I forgot to reply to the automated message to join the mailing list) and for your willingness to accommodate by way of API changes Vincent. As I said in my previous post, I think it's best if WTP and Cactus work together on the Cactus integration in Eclipse. At this point I think this means agreeing on where the Cactus integration for Eclipse plugin will be developed and maintaining one source tree (as opposed to one with WTP and one with Cactus). As you stated below you currently have no resource to work on Eclipse integration. WTP has one resource in Daniel who has already started the Cactus integration based on the WTP and this work should be fine to continue at Eclipse. However, for legal reasons, I don't think Eclipse can adopt the Cactus integration code from Apache and the work done in Cactus will probably have to be discarded if we go this route.
Is Cactus OK with discarding the work done on Eclipse integration or investigating a way to donate it to Eclipse? If so, can you specify on the Cactus website that WTP provides Cactus integration for Eclipse? Thanks, Lawrence Mandel Software Developer IBM Rational Software Phone: 905 - 413 - 3814 Fax: 905 - 413 - 4920 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/20/2005 05:24 AM To "'Cactus Developers List'" <cactus-dev@jakarta.apache.org> cc Lawrence Mandel/Toronto/[EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject RE: Eclipse Web Tools Integration Hi Lawrence, (You don't seem to be subscribed to the list as I've had to moderate your post. This means that if someone else answers your mail without cc-ing you you won't see the answer - unless you're following the list manually using gmane or something alike) See below > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawrence Mandel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: samedi 20 août 2005 05:54 > To: cactus-dev@jakarta.apache.org > Subject: Eclipse Web Tools Integration > > Hi, > > Just wondering if there was any follow-up with Daniel's post. Daniel has > already started adding Cactus support to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform > (WTP) project (see http://www.eclipse.org/webtools). That's really great for the Cactus project. Thanks Daniel! > Seems a shame to > waste effort duplicating functionality that can benefit both projects. > (Much of the functionality in the Webapp Eclipse plugin is probably > available from the WTP.) The WTP project is already working with or using > several Apache projects including Axis, Tomcat, Geronimo, Derby, and > Xerces. > > As the Cactus Eclipse plugin has not been updated for Eclipse 3.x yet (and > Eclipse 3.1 was just released) my first question is, is anyone currently > working on the Cactus Eclipse plugins? What happened is that the Cactus Eclipse plugin was developed by one person who has left just after writing 90% of it. It was in a functional state when he left but with things left to make it production ready. Unfortunately, at the same time, the Cactus Ant integration on which is was building was modified quite extensively (it was transformed from a build.xml implementation to a Java solution using the Ant tasks directly from Java). Unfortunately nobody in the Cactus community seemed to have either the Eclipse knowledge nor the itch to upgrade the Eclipse plugin to the new Ant integration and the Eclipse plugin had to be decommissioned (i.e. removed from the Cactus distribution). It is still in Cactus CVS waiting for someone to improve it (which is actually a relatively easy job I'd say). Several persons have expressed their wish to work on it but I've not seen any actual result so far. Here's for the story :-) Thus, I don't think there'll be lots of duplication happening in practice. I really appreciate your asking. If you're looking for people who can help, you can always post requests here on this list and you may find people interested in participating. Now if Daniel or others have questions or need a Cactus API to be modified for a better integration, etc, let them know that they're more than welcome to ask here. Thanks a lot -Vincent > Lawrence Mandel > > Software Developer > IBM Rational Software > Phone: 905 - 413 - 3814 Fax: 905 - 413 - 4920 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Eclipse WTP Integration > Daniel Somerfield > Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:49:02 -0800 > Hi everyone, > > I have recently started working on integrating Cactus with the Eclipse > WebTools project. WebTools has J2EE run, build and deploy functionality > so it seemed like a natural place to integrate with Cactus. If there are > other people interested in helping with Eclipse/WebTools integration, I > encourage your to join the WebTools mailing list > (https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev), or to communicate > with me directly. > > Thank very much, > > Daniel
