Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development--WORDY RESPONSE

2006-12-07 Thread Tim McConnell
Hi Sachin, this is a very good question and I've been dwelling on it for a number of weeks now after looking at the Geronimo deployment code, and the integration steps required for JSF 1.2. Being the new kid on the block in the community I feel there is another side to this problem that also has

Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-06 Thread Jason Dillon
FYI, some of this can be achieved once we re-organize modules, so that each tree of modules represents related modules that need to be built together.  Then a set of mvn commands can build parts faster... for example, if all ActiveMQ related modules were in a top-level components/activemq module, t

Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-06 Thread Vamsavardhana Reddy
Testing code changes in G was and still is a painfully long process.  Testing changes to admin console is ok(?) to some extent.  I use Eclipse for development.  Some changes could be tested quickly while using remote debug, but, you can not be sure which ones and once the IDE complains "Hot code re

Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-03 Thread Paul McMahan
On 11/3/06, Sachin Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So since I've been working on Geronimo, one of the most annoying things developing Geronimo in an IDE is the overhead involved between modifing code and being able to test the code. For a single line change you have to rebuild and install the m

Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-03 Thread Sachin Patel
To add there are two audiences here.  (1) Our users, and improving the IDE integration with the runtime, so that they have a better IDE experience when deploying their J2EE applications and or Geronimo services to geronimo.(2) The commmiters and contributes for Geronimo, to improve their experience

Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-03 Thread Sachin Patel
Hi Aaron,I think this is different.  I'm not talking about developing applications for Geronimo, but developing Geronimo itself.  Yes, I'm planning to use the in-place support in conjunction with what I plan for  GERONIMO-1526 to improve application development for Geronimo.On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:00

Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-03 Thread Aaron Mulder
Have you considered using the in-place deployment features to load classes from target/classes or something like that? I know for example IDEA can generate an exploded WAR on each build which you could deploy as an in-place deployment... Thanks, Aaron On 11/3/06, Sachin Patel <[EMAIL PROT

Improve 'Geronimo' Development

2006-11-03 Thread Sachin Patel
So since I've been working on Geronimo, one of the most annoying things developing Geronimo in an IDE is the overhead involved between modifing code and being able to test the code.  For a single line change you have to rebuild and install the module, rebuild the assembly, and re-extract and relaun