I keep meaning to get involved here, and I really should as it's not fair to you having to work off in a corner. As you state, it's far more motivating to have someone to work with. Tends to lead to smaller more frequent patches, discussion, and all sorts of goodies :)

If you can submit what you have as a patch I'll take a look at the whole thing.

-David

On Feb 12, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Gallimore wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Many thanks for your email!

That's right, it isn't currently in the official repository, its currently in the sandbox/openejb-eclipse-plugin area. If you wanted to team up that would be great - I would certainly find it very motivating :). I think there's still a bit of work to do before its ready, the following springs immediately to mind:

  * Need to make the server view work with different version strings -
    currently it works with openejb-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT but
    openejb-3.0.0-beta2 for example didn't work (or at least it didn't
    last time I tried)
  * Make the PDE tests run during a Maven build (I've made a start on
    this, but its not quite there)
  * Add annotation generation for Entity beans (again, I've made a
    start, I can get the orm.xml file that's generated from
    ejb-jar.xml and openejb-jar.xml and passed to OpenJPA, and read it
    into the JAXB tree. I think generating most of the annotations for
    entity beans will be pretty straightforward from that structure.)
  * I think some other refactorings for Entity beans will be needed -
    such as making the bean class non-abstract and adding in the
    member variables.


I guess the question is what's the best way to proceed - I currently have some code in my own SVN repo which I ought to create a patch of and get into the sandbox. I think it would also be useful if pop some notes on the plugin up on the wiki. What do you think?

Thanks again for your e-mail, I'm looking forward to working with you and making progress with the plugin!

Cheers

Jon

Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
Hi there,

is it right that your Eclipse plugin isn't part of the official
OpenEJB SVN repo? If yes, has it been discussed on the ML to get
the code into the OpenEJB repository?

Maybe if you need some help to get the plugin into the OpenEJB
repository we could team up to make it happen...

What do you think?

Cheers
Daniel S. Haischt


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