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Tim McConnell commented on GERONIMODEVTOOLS-511:
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My two cents:
1) The initial request from Jürgen Weber would actually be fairly simple to
provide, especially since we already do pretty much the exact thing when we
build the GEP. We download the platform-specific version of Eclipse that we
require into our local M2 repo to create Eclipse installation. Aslo, when we
invoke the GEP testsuite we do the same but then install all the GEP
features/plugins in the that Eclipse installation. So we have everything in
place -- we would only have to zip them up and make them available.
Alternatively, instead of storing the resultant zip/tar file(s) we might
consider just making the Ant/Maven scripts available to accomplish the same
thing. But even if we do this I'm not sure it would simplify much for the
end-user since the current installation process is almost trivial (in my
opinion) especially with the all-in-one Eclipse bundles that provides all the
prereqs.
2) Actually, I have thought quite a bit about a so-called "Geronimo Studio"
that Jürgen Weber suggests and think we should consider it or at least discuss
in more detail. I can envision this as a light-weight development environment
that follows the same model as the Geronimo server. Namely, to integrate and
incorporate various other open-source development projects (i.e., Eclipse
plugins) into an integrated Java EE development environment specifically for
Geronimo. A single download with imbedded Geronimo server(s), GEP, other
open-source Eclipse plugins that provide function not currently in the GEP, and
possibly some tutorials/samples, might be appealing to many users, especially
those who want to experiment with and/or prototype with Geronimo. I could go on
forever, but the idea here would be to provide everything the user wants/needs
in a development environment without them having to download everything
separately and then installing and configuring them -- the very same rationale
we have for using the Geronimo server.
> Provide zip download of Geronimo Eclipse Plugin complete with requisites
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>
> Key: GERONIMODEVTOOLS-511
> URL:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMODEVTOOLS-511
> Project: Geronimo-Devtools
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: eclipse-plugin
> Affects Versions: 2.1.2
> Reporter: Jürgen Weber
> Assignee: Tim McConnell
>
> Please provide a zip / tar.gz download of Geronimo Eclipse Plugin complete
> with all requisites, inclusive a stripped-down Eclipse itself.
> The zip should not contain eclipse as root folder but rather eclipseGeronimo
> to not overwrite the default Eclipse installation.
> The download options described in
> http://geronimo.apache.org/development-tools.html
> require that WTP and some more are installed. Installing WTP is error-prone,
> as it has lots of dependencies you need in the right version.
> Installing via Eclipse-Help-Software Updates does not work either as the
> Update manager is not smart enough to install requisites:
> Geronimo v1.0 Server Adapter (2.0.0) requires feature "org.eclipse.jst
> (2.0.0)", or compatible
> The given ant script does not work behind our firewall, and I am not keen on
> figuring out how the firewall options of ant work.
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