On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Shiva Kumar H R wrote:
This is with regard to auto generation of Geronimo deployment plans
(http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3254). One problem
where I am currently stuck is in the discovery of Annotations.
User input to my wizard/portlet would be the Java EE module (WAR/
EJB-JAR/EAR) and output would be the Geronimo deployment plan. An
important step in this process is to discover all references
declared in the Java EE module and then ask the user to resolve
them ( http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/
12360303/3ResolveReferences.gif).
References declared in the spec deployment descriptor (web.xml/ejb-
jar.xml) can easily be discovered by parsing the spec DD (lines 921
to 959 of http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12360289/
PoC.patch). References declared as Annotations in java code (with
probably no mention in the spec DD) is what is posing the problem now.
Are there any standard APIs that simplify the job of discovering
these Annotations (and optionally get them into the spec DD)?
Please note that this must be achieved without the need for
actually deploying the Java EE module onto the server (user is in
the process of still creating the Geronimo deployment plan using
wizard/portlet).
Any help and hints is greatly appreciated.
roughly the first thing the NamingBuilders do is find all the
relevant annotations and modify the spec dd by adding xml with the
same meaning (when not already overridden). I recommend you figure
out how this works and use the NamingBuilders to do this. You might
need to expose another method on the naming builders for your portlet
to call.
thanks
david jencks
Thanks,
Shiva
