Sachin, I just checked out the RC3 and it looks GREAT!! I love the fact that using the Eclipse plugin I can create a web project, deploy it to Geronimo, debug/update my JSP and see the changes reflected immediately (and I mean *immediately*) via a simple app republish, and then export my application as a Geronimo plugin using the admin console launched within Eclipse. This makes it so easy to create, debug, and export applications. Nice work!!
I would feel remiss if I didn't provide at least a couple of suggestions, so I would say that it would be nice if you could export Geronimo plugins directly from the navigator without having to launch the admin console. Maybe this could be modeled after Eclipse's own plugin development features. Also, longer term it would be cool if I could create a Geronimo based portal server using, say, Jetspeed or Liferay in Eclipse and deploy portlets to it. I'm interested in helping out if you like these ideas. Best wishes, Paul On 7/7/06, Sachin Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So to close out the 1.1 eclipse tooling release here is what I'm planning to do... RC3 is currently available to pull down and test. I still need to do some sniff testing on the update-site distribution and making sure existing 1.0 plugin users can update directly to 1.1. (Since plugins where completely renamed in 1.1.1 I'm hoping eclipse knows how to handle this correctly and disables old plugins not in the latest feature.) After I create the release notes I plan to call a vote within the next 24-48 hours. Looking ahead to 1.1.1 I'm hoping there will not be any incompatible changes in 1.1.1 and so the 1.1 jars I'm repackaging in the eclipse- plugin will work for deployments to 1.1.1. Also the eclipse PDE builder has a feature that supports generating qualified builds that TLPs are now exploiting so projects can provide updates at a much more frequent and granular level. I plan to implement a similar feature in the eclipse plugin m2 build that will allow similar capability. This should help us get to a model where we can have frequent maintenance releases with minimum work for the developer to put out these releases. (i.e simply commit fixes, build, and the generated plugins versions will have generated qualifiers appended to them that can simply pushed to the update site). -sachin
