I think you are really off base here. :) Take two steps back here.
Please first go through the articles I recommended, it will give you
a much better understanding of how eclipse plugins are built and
debugged. You need first and foremost and understanding of the PDE.
Run though some of the tutorials on the eclipse site. Create your
own plugin, debug it. Afterwards you'll have realized the answer to
your questions.
- sachin
On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Lin Sun wrote:
Thanks. I am willing to help out the documentation once I figure
out how to
do that myself. I did go through a basic Hello plugin development
tutorial
but I still have the following specific questions:
1) When I imported devtools project into Eclipse, I imported it as
a plugin
development--plugin project. Then I gave it a project name and
pointed the
project contents to directory devtools\modules\eclipse-plugin.
Selected default of the rest and finished creating the project.
However, I
noticed the devtools\modules\eclipse-plugin\plugin.xml file is
created,
which was not there before I imported the devtools project into
Eclipse.
2) Also, I'd like to know what should I have on the java build path
of the
project? I tried to put everything I can think of -- WTP 1.0.1 SDK
zip
file, Eclipse 3.1.2. zip file, but when I tried to right click on
GenericServerBehaviour (inside of GeronimoServerBehavior.java file)
and
selected "open call hierarchy" I got a "the resource is not on the
build
path of a Java project" error. I also could not find the java API
doc of
this file either.
Thanks again for your help!
Lin
-----Original Message-----
From: Sachin Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: WTP/Eclipse questions/defects
Yes I can but it will be a while before I get to it. Most of the
information you really need is in Plugin Development Guide in the
Eclipse Help and the tutorials on the Eclipse site which is full of
information to get started. But before anything, your best bet is to
go though one of the tutorials on creating your first plugin to get
familiar with the the plugin development environment and how the
eclipse framework works.
See http://www.eclipse.org/articles/
- sachin
On Feb 28, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Lin Sun wrote:
I read your wiki page on how to develop Geronimo within eclipse
which was
very helpful. However, I haven't been able to debug the Geronimo
plugin
within eclipse. Is there any document on how to that, similar as
the wiki
page for developing Geronimo? I think this will be very useful
for anyone
who wants to help out with the Geronimo plugin.
Thanks,
Lin
-----Original Message-----
From: Sachin Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: WTP/Eclipse questions/defects
Just like you would hunt down a problem in G or any other project.
Use the debugger. Eclipse/WTP provides sdk distributions so all the
source is available. You can put breakpoints in the geronimo code to
see the method call hierarchy in the debug view in Eclipse to get an
understanding of who calls what.
Another common practice is to verify problems against other server
adapters. This would be a good indication that the bug is in WTP and
not the implementation of a given adapter. Then you can use the
debugger to evaluate further.
- sachin
On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Lin Sun wrote:
Hi Sachin,
Thanks this information is very useful. I am relatively new to the
plugin
development... Could you shed some light on how to tell if a defect
is in
WTP or Geronimo devtools?
Thanks,
Lin
-----Original Message-----
From: Sachin Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:24 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: WTP/Eclipse questions/defects
With the release of the Eclipse plugin, here are a list of helpful
resources where WTP/Eclipse specific questions can be asked and
where
you'll be able to search for answers to many common questions.
http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index_project.php
The newsgroup URL is news.eclipse.org and the WTP specific list is
eclipse.webtools.
The bug reporting tool for all Eclipse projects is https://
bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
If you feel you find a defect in WTP that you feel affects the
functionality of the Geronimo plugin, for tracking purposes open a
Jira in Geronimo and link it to the bugzilla number. This way the
project is aware and thus can ensure that the defect gets added to
the WTP adopter list and can take a higher priority.
Thanks.
- sachin
