On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25/04/2011 08:39, Unico Hommes wrote:
>
> The only way I see ATM for a faster development cycle is to use
>> something like JRebel.
>>
>
> Hmmm... I don't like the sound of that. JRebel is $189, that's rather alot
> for someone just wanting to do a few quick fixes. I'd rather we were
> configured in such a way as to be able to use whatever tools are common and
> thus attract as many developers as possible.
>
> Is this possible with Maven? Still exploring.
>
I'm not experienced with using the server config from Eclipse so won't
comment on that.
What I'm exploring is using an embedded container so I can use a debug
config in Eclipse.
The cargo plugin, that Ate configured in the rave-portal/pom.xml spins off a
Tomcat instance
as a separate java process. I couldn't find a way of using that from within
Eclipse. If I run
mvn cargo:start as a m2eclipse run/debug config and kill the JVM, the Tomcat
instance will
remain active and I need to manually kill the Java process.
What kind-of works is using embedded Jetty in the configuration of the cargo
plugin.
To get this going replace the <container> in the cargo-maven2-plugin
configuration of
the rave-portal/pom.xml with:
<container>
<containerId>jetty7x</containerId>
<type>embedded</type>
</container>
Also, the shindig war needs to matched to context '/' instead of '/ROOT'.
Gotchas:
- I tried Jetty 6 first but got into a lot of trouble with JSP/JSTL/el-api
misconfiguration,
because there are jstl and el-api libs prebundled in the shindig war that
need to be matched.
- Using the config above I can set breakpoints in the Java code and change
stuff there
which will be hot-deployed, however changes in JSPs were not picked up,
don't know
why yet.
- When trying to put the embedded jetty7 config in a separate Maven2 profile
my breakpoints
were ignored, don't know why yet.
Because of all this I didn't check in any of my pom.xml changes. Will try
further and
any comment welcome!
Sander
>
> Ross
>
>
>
>> --
>> Unico
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Ross Gardler<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/04/2011 01:31, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24/04/2011 00:35, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23/04/2011 23:07, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I'll keep digging when I find a little more time, but if anyone sees my
>>>> silly mistake please let me know.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Getting a little closer, but still not working...
>>>
>>> I tried running from the projects context sensitive menu rather than the
>>> server controller view. This opened the browser for me at
>>> http://localhost:8080/rave-portal and the page loaded (with 404's for
>>> each
>>> gadget as the URL for them is not relative.
>>>
>>> I'm going to bed now, I hope someone can provide me with a simple step by
>>> step process for getting this working in Eclipse for an efficient
>>> edit/build
>>> cycle.
>>>
>>> (Damn those steep learning curves with new build tools.)
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://joemorrison.org/blog/2008/06/01/developing-web-applications-with-maven-and-eclipse-you-can-have-it-all/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
