The Orion tools are flakey and have some unresolved bugs. But of course you're not using Orion because of its great IDE. :) My experience with the Orion tools is that they seem like more of a proof of concept than something practical to use.
I typically write alot of the descriptors by hand, which is still one of the best ways I know of. But I've started using an opensource tool called EJBCreator, which seems to work well, do a lot of the monkey-work for you, and is reasonably reliable. In fact it does just about everything I want except its too verbose in alot of its in code comments (but thats just me and it *IS* opensource so I could change that if I really wanted to). CHeck it out at http://opensource.itplus.dk/ -----Original Message----- From: Michal Palicka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:28 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Generating descriptors Hello, what tools do you use to generate various descriptors (beans, applications, etc.)? Do you prefer writing descriptors manualy? Could you give me any hints? I tried the EJB Assembler tool, which is a part of Orion, but I could not generate the EJB descriptor. I am able to generate the EJB jar file, but without the descriptor. When I try to save the descriptor I always get the following error: Couldn't save to that location: META-INF. Could you tell me, what are the correct steps to generate an EJB + the corresponding descriptor? Thanks in advance Michal Palicka, Cleverlance
