I use ant. Check jakarta.apache.org for it. When I change a file with JBuilder or TextPad, I run ant in a console window. It builds the jar file and moves it to the right place for orion to pick it up.
Kurt in Atlanta
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Duffey, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:37 PM
>To: Orion-Interest
>Subject: EJB Help..
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am trying my hand at EJB with Orion, and I am wondering if
>there is any
>way to avoid the hassle of always having to package the ejb
>classes into a
>.jar file, and so on. Is there any way at all to develop and
>deploy ejbs
>using an expanded dir structure, much like in the development of a .war
>file..where you have the whole www dir, WEB-INF, etc
>expanded..but then jar
>it up and rename it to .war for deployment? It seems rather
>tedious on ejb
>development every time a change is made, the whole thing has to be
>repackaged and deployed. I know there are some tools, such as JBuilder,
>VisualCafe, etc that do this for you somewhat nicely..but even
>those take a
>little bit of time to do it. So, for the purposes of
>development, where many
>changes are happening on any regular basis, how can I quickly
>develop and
>test ejb, with Orion, or any app server for that matter. I do want the
>ability for the context.lookup() call to work. The reason
>is..I have two
>computers, networked. I want to develop the ejbs on one
>computer, and have
>my www stuff on the other hitting them over the network so
>that i can get
>some kind of feel of the performance. I have a 4-way switch, so I can
>develop www stuff, then switch over to the other computer and
>do some ejb
>stuff. I will run one instance of Orion on each computer.
>However, I don't
>mind also being able to run www and ejb stuff in the same on
>instance on one
>computer, as long as the lookup stuff is used the same way,
>even though the
>ejb's are running locally.
>
>Any pointers on how to set up Orion to do this, including the
>application.xml <module> tag (how to point it to the right
>place instead of
>the ejb.jar file, for example so that the ejbs will get picked
>up by the
>server), web.xml, orion-web.xml, server.xml, etc..anything
>that needs to be
>done to get this to work.
>
>Thanks so much for any help.
>
