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Does work fine for me on the command line (mvn clean install and then mvn 
cargo:start).  I'm able to log on as John Doe.


Marlon

On 4/26/11 5:09 PM, Raminderjeet Singh wrote:
> Thanks Ate for making it easier for eclipse development. I am successfully 
> able to make everything work using your story text :). Though i am not able 
> to login as i am getting Your login attempt was not successful, try again.
> 
> Here is the additional information you may need and coping required steps 
> from Ate's email 
> 
> If you already have m2eclipse and imported the project without installing 
> m2e-extras( as i already used m2eclipse to import the project) then you need 
> to delete the project (do not delete content) and import it again in eclipse. 
> 
> I just summarized the steps and added additional information.
> 
> 1. install m2eclipse and m2e-extras to eclipse following 
> http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/installing-m2eclipse.html. 
> 2 Checkout the code from SVN using command line and build it with mvn before 
> adding to eclipse. 
> 3 Import rave-project as "Existing Maven Project".
> 4. 0pen in Eclipse the rave-shindig project properties and go to the 
> "Deployment Assembly" section, you can add there additional packaging sources 
> which will also be deployed to the server.
> Press Add, select Directive Type "Folder", and select the 
> target/rave-shindig-0.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT folder. 
> 5 Make sure to also configure the correct Context root paths for rave-portal 
> ("portal") and rave-shindig ("/") in their Eclipse project properties under 
> "Web Project Settings".
> 6 Deploy rave-portal to eclipse embedded tomcat server. Right Click on 
> rave-project > Run As > Run on Server. you can add a server by going to 
> Manually define a new server.  
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Raminder 
> 
> 
> On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Ate Douma wrote:
> 
>> On 04/25/2011 11:05 AM, Ross Gardler 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'll do my best to give some answers :)
>>
>> Its a long response, but there is quite some stuff to consider here, so 
>> please bear with me.
>>
>> First of all, if you want to use Eclipse with Maven, I strongly suggest 
>> *not* using the maven-eclipse-plugin. It doesn't properly handle more 
>> complex and especially not multi-module projects.
>>
>> IMO the only reliable solution is using the m2eclipse plugin.
>> Before switching, make sure to remove all possible maven-eclipse-plugin 
>> generated meta-data (or start from a clean svn checkout) as m2eclipse 
>> explicitly refuses to load maven-eclipse-plugin initiated project 
>> configurations (!).
>> With m2eclipse either directly import from svn (Materialize as Maven 
>> project) or import as Maven project after a command line svn checkout.
>>
>> The sonatype Maven Eclipse book explains how to setup Eclipse with 
>> m2eclipse, even if its still lacking in detail on stuff like Eclipse WTP 
>> integration: http://www.sonatype.com/books/m2eclipse-book/reference/
>>
>> Note: If you want to run Tomcat embedded within Eclipse with, make sure to 
>> also install the optional m2eclipe WTP plugin (m2e-extras).
>>
>> One more note: for svn integration within Eclipse you have two options: 
>> subclipse and subversive. Although I haven't recently checked/reviewed the 
>> subclipse plugin in my experience the subversive plugin is *much* better, 
>> especially with regard to multi-module maven projects.
>>
>> Now, concerning using Eclipse WTP vs maven+cargo+optionally JRebel.
>>
>> Eclipse WTP is usable, even with Rave (more details below), but definitely 
>> not perfect.
>> Part of that is caused by WTP itself: in my experience its still quite 
>> buggy, quirky, slow and heavy.
>> And part of it is the still not great (but improving) maven/m2eclipse 
>> integration. Especially the not yet (but see [1]) handling of war overlays, 
>> which is biting us with rave-shindig, is a major pain in the @ss.
>>
>> I'm not all too familiar with other IDEs like Netbeans or IntelliJ if they 
>> do this better, maybe they do...
>>
>> Anyway, the "issue" with the rave-shindig module is that it is using the 
>> maven-war-plugin war overlay feature. Eclipe WTP/m2eclipse simply isn't 
>> aware of this, so the only things that gets deployed to the server are the 
>> resources defined by the rave-shindig project itself, meaning: effectively 
>> "broken".
>> To fix this in a WTP expected way, we would have to *fork* the Apache 
>> shindig server project itself into the rave-shindig project, which IMO isn't 
>> an option. Especially not if you check how the shindig server project is 
>> build...
>>
>> However, I have somewhat of a workaround.
>>
>> First make sure you already (maven) build rave-shindig.
>> If you open in Eclipse the rave-shindig project properties and go to the 
>> "Deployment Assembly" section, you can add there additional packaging 
>> sources which will also be deployed to the server.
>> Press Add, select Directive Type "Folder", and select the 
>> target/rave-shindig-0.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT folder.
>> As result, it will overlay the full rave-shindig war target folder to 
>> Tomcat, and it actually works when you run the server from Eclipse.
>>
>> BTW: make sure to also configure the correct Context root paths for 
>> rave-portal ("portal") and rave-shindig ("/") in their Eclipse project 
>> properties under "Web Project Settings".
>>
>> Clearly, the above solution isn't perfect, but that's the status of Eclipse 
>> WTP and maven integration. Hopefully with the promises from [1] this might 
>> get better sometime soon.
>>
>> So what are the alternatives?
>> a) a different preferred IDE, maybe Netbeans or IntelliJ
>> b) use maven to run/manage the runtime container and use remote debugging
>>
>> For a) I'm inclined to say we should allow and support developers to use any 
>> IDE of their choice, which means *also* Eclipse.
>>
>> AFAIK IntelliJ Community Edition doesn't support server deployment at all, 
>> nor does it have proper/full Maven or Web development integration. If you 
>> want to use IntelliJ you'll then need a commercial (or free for open source 
>> project) license similar to JRebel.
>>
>> Netbeans, I don't really know anymore. Never liked it as IDE but nowadays it 
>> seems to have great Maven integration (so I hear).
>>
>> This leads to my own preference to go with b), at least until [1] gets 
>> moving and working properly.
>>
>> By using maven/cargo to deploy and run the container we can stick to a 
>> single configuration which works with all IDEs, and important: is exactly 
>> the same for standalone or console based development/deployment.
>> The maven-cargo-plugin already is configured to support remote debugging 
>> out-of-the-box, so remote Java debugging from Eclipse/Netbeans/IntelliJ is 
>> trivial to setup.
>>
>> What then is problematic is "hot resource/code replacement" from the IDE. 
>> And for that JRebel really is a killer solution which works perfectly with 
>> all IDEs. Even (much) better than what you get through the embedded 
>> debugging with Eclipse WTP, Netbeans or IntelliJ alone. Maybe there are 
>> other alternatives to JRebel but I haven't found them yet.
>>
>> I'm not saying that we all should start using JRebel, but as Rave committers 
>> we can get a free (individual) license if we want: [2]
>>
>> Of course, that won't help external developers when they are not also 
>> working on an open source project. Then its either use Eclipse WTP (with my 
>> workaround), use a different/better IDE, or use something like JRebel and 
>> pay a price.
>>
>> As a final remark I want to say that IMO none of this is related to using 
>> Maven. I think the only real issue right now is the problem of war overlay 
>> handling in Eclipse, which hopefully will be solved soon.
>> I see currently no practical alternative for not using a war overlay for the 
>> rave-shindig project, other than forking shindig server itself.
>> AFAIK using a different build system than Maven wouldn't help here either.
>>
>> Pfff, long story :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ate
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.eclipse.plugins.m2eclipse.user/6018
>> [2] http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/javarebel-for-open-source-development/
>>
>>>
>>> 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/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
> 
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