Ok- It seems like a good way forward is to assume usage of the maven
plugin within Eclipse.  I think this is a reasonable way to do it and
will also keep us honest about being maven-agnostic.  I entered a
comment accordingly in the ticket.

Karl

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Farzad Valad <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm out of town, will resume Tue
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:50 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've created a ticket for this: CONNECTORS-223.  If you could comment
>> on the proposed plan before I start executing it, that would be great.
>> I'll be happy to do all the needed tree rearrangement and build.xml
>> changes if, once again, you are willing to handle the maven pieces.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Karl
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Yes, it's feasible to move the tests around.  The maven unit test
>>> convention I understand, and it is straightforward to adhere to it,
>>> but what should the structure be for the end-to-end tests?  Right now
>>> these are under the root-level "tests" directory, and there are tests
>>> for various combinations of framework and connectors.  Each of these
>>> under Maven should have its own directory and its own pom.xml, no?
>>> They'd have no code under src/main/java and the test code would be
>>> under src/test/java, correct?
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:49 AM, tobr dev <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I also tried to import mcf into eclipse but it does not work in an easy 
>>>> way.
>>>> That's why I was looking for the maven integration.
>>>> It is really easy to import the modules using maven and the m2eclipse 
>>>> plugin
>>>> (Just import as maven project), but because of your project structure it is
>>>> currently not possible to run tests.
>>>> To fix this issue you could reorganize your tests and add them to the
>>>> modules they belong.
>>>>
>>>> The maven plugin is also able to depend on the current SNAPSHOT versions of
>>>> the project dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> But nevertheless it is not easy to maintain more than one build system and
>>>> yours is currently ant.
>>>>
>>>> Just some thoughts on build tools and eclipse
>>>> tob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to go ahead and open the ticket.  Please attach your
>>>>> proposed patch(es) to it.  CONNECTORS-222.
>>>>>
>>>>> I *would* like to avoid reorganizing the tree, except in a minor way.
>>>>> Maven already forces a lot of cruft on us - we can't afford two
>>>>> masters here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Your proposal is then to change the structure of ManifoldCF to match
>>>>>> the hierarchy in your .zip file?  If we did that, maven would no
>>>>>> longer work, and it might not be possible to get it to work.  The ant
>>>>>> build system would require major revisions.  The documentation and
>>>>>> book would all need changes too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot believe that Eclipse is this rigid.  Perhaps the issue is
>>>>>> that you actually need multiple Eclipse projects?  I can imagine a
>>>>>> project for each jar, for instance, and a project for building and
>>>>>> running the agents process which depends on the output of those
>>>>>> upstream projects.  How does Eclipse deal with debugging if you do
>>>>>> something like that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Farzad Valad <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> It is not as bad as it seems : ) The only extra step right now is
>>>>> checking
>>>>>>> out the lcf source code.  The projects I sent you are essentially the
>>>>>>> eclipse settings you are looking for that would be loaded into the repo.
>>>>>>>  There are nothing in them beside eclipse settings and links to the lcf
>>>>>>> source code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You got it, the patch would include the project files I sent and the
>>>>> steps
>>>>>>> to setup Eclipse.  The only extra step right now is dealing with the zip
>>>>>>> file that would get eliminated.  That's the best I can see without
>>>>> impacting
>>>>>>> a lot of current structure, like the build files, the source paths, etc
>>>>> etc.
>>>>>>>  The only major differece is that I trimmed down the build.xml file that
>>>>> was
>>>>>>> in framework.  I stripped out the unit test stuff, the jetty packaging
>>>>> and
>>>>>>> war file creation, just to focus on what I needed.  Maybe break down the
>>>>>>> original build.xml to three or four grouped scripts for each task, like
>>>>>>> building core, packaging jetty, running test.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At this point, the best thing is for another person to try this out and
>>>>> let
>>>>>>> me know how it goes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/13/2011 10:10 AM, Karl Wright wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there any way to provide a eclipse settings file that helps with
>>>>>>>> the project setup?  Or is this an entirely manual process?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am happy to open a Jira ticket to cover eclipse integration.  It
>>>>>>>> *sounds* like what the patch should contain would be some files that
>>>>>>>> get checked into the source tree, and some instructions that probably
>>>>>>>> should become part of a new web site page, "Running under Eclipse".
>>>>>>>> Or do you have other ideas?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Karl
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Farzad Valad<[email protected]>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So what is the verdict on the eclipse setup?  Maybe we can work
>>>>> through
>>>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>>> example, like running the agent from eclipse, so I can fine tune the
>>>>>>>>> setup
>>>>>>>>> procedure.  I figured out how to link the sources into the eclipse
>>>>>>>>> project
>>>>>>>>> without manual copying. You need two things, 1) check out the existing
>>>>>>>>> lcf
>>>>>>>>> project source into eclipse as lcf, 2) the eclipse projects:
>>>>> mcflib-core,
>>>>>>>>> mcflib-3rd, mcfAgentStart, and mcfAgentStop (Apache mail server has a
>>>>> 1MB
>>>>>>>>> limit, download from
>>>>>>>>> http://www.farzad.net/apache/MCFAgentEclipseProjects.zip)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For the first item, using Eclipse checkout the source path lcf from
>>>>>>>>> apache
>>>>>>>>> repository.  You'll need to install the SVN plugin for Eclipse if you
>>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>> have it.  For the second item, extract the zip file into a temp
>>>>> location.
>>>>>>>>> Import the 4 projects into eclipse by File->Import->select "Existing
>>>>>>>>> Projects into Workspace", then point to one of the folders.  Would
>>>>> need
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> do this four times.  Inside Eclipse, the start and stop projects would
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> a red exclamation mark, because the core libs are missing
>>>>> intentionally.
>>>>>>>>>  Expand the mcflib-core project and run the "build.xml" file.  Refresh
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> projects and you should not see any errors.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Run the mcfAgentStart project as a Java Application and include the VM
>>>>>>>>> parameter of -Dorg.apache.manifoldcf.configfile=properties.xml.  If
>>>>>>>>> succesful, you'd see the message "Running... " and "Configuration file
>>>>>>>>> successfully read".  To stop the agent, run the mcfAgentStop project
>>>>> as a
>>>>>>>>> Java Application and include the same VM parm.  You can debug and set
>>>>>>>>> break
>>>>>>>>> points by running the debugger in eclipse against the same two
>>>>> projects.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Assuming all went well, that is what it takes to run the agent.
>>>>>>>>>  Thoughts?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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