Re: XDoclet support

[John Sisson]

Neal Sanche wrote:
Sachin Patel wrote:
Any objections on me checking in the XDoclet jira (778) into a 
devtools sandbox so people can start working on it?

There also needs to be some work done in WTP as well as in the 
geronimo plugins so that the tags can get registered in WTP in both 
the xdoclet configuration panel and in content assist.  I can work on 
driving those changes in.

Sachin.

I'm curious about this XDoclet stuff. Does this mean that deployment 
plans will be built from XDoclet? Or is it for some other purpose?

Currently it supports the generation of the openejb-jar.xml file for 
session and message-driven beans. See the JIRA issue regarding 
limitations/further work required.

There may be people who already have EJB applications written for other 
application servers where the build of the EJB application uses XDoclet 
tags (e.g. @ejb and @weblogic/@websphere/@jboss) in their EJBs.

The Geronimo XDoclet plugin adds support for the @geronimo tag. 
Therefore those XDoclet users could add the appropriate @geronimo tags 
to their EJBs to generate openejb-jar.xml files in addition to the other 
App server specific files. Note that it isn't as simple as changing 
@weblogic to @geronimo in your EJB code though, since the tag parameters 
are application server specific.


Thanks.

-Neal


Regards,

John