We could also think to extract some part of ear/war/... plugins to
reuse some services throught a shared library

Arnaud

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Richard van Nieuwenhoven
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> Hi,
>
>  The problem here is the phase in the life cycle.. The best thing would
>  be to use the generated application.xml from the ear plugin but thats
>  generated very late in the packaging phase. The eclipse plugin runs in a
>  very early phase to be able to generate eclipse config files also for
>  broken projects... It is even very difficult to generate the application
>  .xml because any of the dependent artifacts can and will not be
>  available in a packaged version (the information source of the
>  maven-ear-plugin). This means till the time we find a solution to that
>  problem, the only chance is to simulate the ear generation as best as
>  possible, and thats not easy.... The same thing is valid also for other
>  packaging's.
>
>  Once i stated that maybe the best solution is to split the eclipse
>  plugin to be activated in different phases, and in each phase do the
>  best thing possible to make the project visible in eclipse, getting
>  better in each phase. But that would be a lot of work.....
>
>  Does anyone have a good idea how to do this, i would love to delete the
>  tons of plugin simulation code (that will never be complete) in the
>  maven-eclipse-plugin.
>
>  regards,
>  Ritchie
>
>
>
>  Siarhei Dudzin wrote:
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > When I was trying to do a workaround with
>  > http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-1862 (actually seems to be WTP
>  > 2.0.2bug) it appears that maven-eclipse-plugin ignores
>  > application.xml that is generated by maven ear plugin. While this might be
>  > ok with WTP 2.0.2 you will have a problem if you use a ejb module as a jar
>  > (not in a project in the workspace) it adds the module anyway and ignores
>  > the JEE5 spec _and_ the EAR plugin settings which allow to specify modules
>  > and eventually exclude them.
>  >
>  > While it is possible to specify in maven-eclipse-plugin config a setting to
>  > use a hardcoded application.xml there are still 2 problems:
>  >
>  > 1. maven-ear-plugin already has the same setting, isn't it better to read
>  > it's settings?
>  > 2. If you choose to generate application.xml the plugin will put all 
> modules
>  > in the application.xml (it does not check the JEE version) thus ignoring 
> the
>  > JEE5 spec _and_ ear-plugin settings anyway.
>  >
>  > As soon as more users will upgrade their eclipse version lots of projects
>  > wont hot-deploy via WTP anymore...
>  >
>  > Your thoughts?
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Siarhei
>  >
>
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