Hesitantly (because I'm afraid of the support issues I'm about to field
:)....
Here is the much hyped and long awaited sample application that I've
mentioned and promised. It is a trimmed down version of the application
Steve and I developed for our Java Development with Ant book.
Relevant to Struts folks are these tidbits:
- XDoclet is generating struts-config.xml, validation.xml, web.xml,
and antbook.tld
- LabelTag (currently mysteriously busted for required tagging) is
included. This tag styles field labels differently if its in error, and
(when its not busted, it works on my production app actually) it shows
an asterisk by required fields.
- strutsgen: a one-off starter generation for JSP's and
ApplicationResources.properties snippets for cutting and pasting into
the main application. It uses XDoclet to process a specified form bean
and uses the fields it finds for generation.
- Use of StrutsTestCase for Cactus testing.
- Maybe some other Struts goodies lurking there that I've forgotten to
mention.
The application itself is a document search engine, based on Lucene, and
should run out of the box in Tomcat or JBoss. It even has the ability
to (at build time) toggle between whether to use a session bean or not
(functionality is the same either way). By default, you can simply
deploy the WAR that you've built and it will work without EJB, but if
you are interested in exploring the session bean piece it can be turned on.
I am in the process of creating much more detailed documentation, but I
wanted to get this out sooner rather than later. If you find any
problems or have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know so
I can refine it and post updates.
The one documentation I need to provide now is to note that you'll need
j2ee.jar to build. I include all other API's. To build, unzip the file
(link below) and it will expand into JavaDevWithAnt directory. In that
directory, run Ant. If you have J2EE_HOME set you shouldn't need to do
anything... just "ant". You'll also need to build a site index, so run
"ant build-site-index". This is intentionally two separate steps. If
you don't have J2EE_HOME set, then you need to provide j2ee.jar to the
build. Do it this way:
ant -Dj2ee.jar=/path/to/my/j2ee.jar
Where "/path/to/my/j2ee.jar" is the actual path to your j2ee.jar
Post any questions/problems to me directly. E-mail me at
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Download:
http://www.ehatchersolutions.com/downloads/JavaDevWithAnt-0.1.zip
There will be updates in the next week or so as I polish the
documentation and address any issues that turn up.
Erik
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