Hi Shiva,
I just went through your presentation and looks good for me :-) .
It is better if we can add this kind of sample application to the
Geronimo documentation (how to create a small sample application with
Eclipse Geronimo Plugin) with some screen prints. It should be targeted
the new comers of J2EE/JEE5 to use Geronimo as their application server.
That will make Geronimo much more popular among J2EE/JEE5 developer
community too.
Thanks,
Lasantha
Shiva Kumar H R wrote:
At the recently held ApacheCon Europe 2007 in Amsterdam I had an
opportunity to speak on "J2EE Application Development on Apache
Geronimo Simplified using Eclipse". I have added the session material
in our wiki (in case some one finds it useful):
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC11/J2EE+Application+Development+on+Apache+Geronimo+Simplified+using+Eclipse
<http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC11/J2EE+Application+Development+on+Apache+Geronimo+Simplified+using+Eclipse>.
Please feel free to move it to a more appropriate location.
Session material can also be downloaded from here:
http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon-data/attachments/Eu2007OnlineSessionSlides/attachments/J2EE_App_Development_Geronimo_Eclipse.zip
A few observations I made as a User of Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in:
1) Downloading Geronimo Eclipse Plugin from within the IDE (by
clicking on the "Don't see your server listed?" or by creating a new
remote site in the update manager) is too slow.
It would save a lot of time if I can simply download a zip of Geronimo
Eclipse Plug-in say from
http://geronimo.apache.org/development-tools.html (similar to the way
I can download zips of most Eclipse Plug-ins from eclipse.org
<http://eclipse.org>).
http://people.apache.org/dist/geronimo/eclipse/unstable/ provides one
such facility for downloading latest version of the plug-in, but not
the earlier versions.
2) It's very tedious and erroneous to create Geronimo Deployment Plans
by hand. It would have helped a lot if Geronimo Development Tools
provided some good editors/wizards for auto creating & editing
Geronimo Deployment Plans.
I started doing some work w.r.t 2) above, but later got confused with
Annotations and the probable new ways of approaching Geronimo 2.0
Deployment Plans with Annotations.
If someone can clarify Community's plans towards Geronimo 2.0
Deployment Plans, I can do something about Eclipse editors/wizards for
Geronimo Deployment Plans.
Thanks,
Shiva
