Jason, Bill, Mark,
Many thanks for your responses. I'm currently doing a build of the
latest code, and will have a look the deployment generator interface
today. At first glance I don't really think its quite what I'm after,
I'm really hoping for something that can generate these files for me
during my build process without any intervention. If possible I'd also
quite like to be able the same app on both JBoss and Geronimo and
generate all the deployment descriptors for both at build time.
It sounds from your reply, Mark, that what I've done on my XDoclet
plugin might be quite helpful. I'm quite happy to develop it further if
people find it useful. Presumably its ok if add this to JIRA and assign
it to myself and continue working on it?
Regards,
Jon
Mark Aufdencamp wrote:
Jonathan,
I have run into this issue as well. Please see my posts from the
Spring. My research revealed that the OpenEJB XDoclet implementation
was indeed for version 1.0 of OpenEJB. I did not find a release for
version 2.0 of OpenEJB.
Not having the openejb-jar.xml mappings generated from the source did
make managing my Entity Beans a little harrier. I was able to generate
the ejb-jar.xml from the XDoclet annotations, but had to hand develop
the openejb-jar.xml from scratch. It worked, but I'd love to be able to
plug-in an XDoclet module and have the base openejb-jar.xml generated.
It whould serve as an initial source for a deployment tool utilized by a
Server Administrator. That enables clear seperation of developer and
administrator duties, while offering codebase stability and deployment
flexibility.
Mark Aufdencamp
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Using XDoclet to generate openejb-jar.xml
From: Jonathan Gallimore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, August 14, 2007 7:28 am
To: [email protected]
Hi All,
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I was wondering whether
anyone uses XDoclet to generate their openejb-jar.xml deployment
descriptors?
Currently we're developing for JBoss 4, and are part way through getting
our app to deploy on the community edition of Websphere. The J2G
migration tool has done an excellent job of migrating our deployment
descriptors, but going forward I'd still like to add all the necessary
XML stuff for new EJBs using XDoclet rather than hand editing the
openejb-jar.xml. Having hunted around it looks like the openejb task
that comes with XDoclet is for a much older version, and only handles
session beans.
I've started work on an xdoclet plugin that generates a basic
openejb-jar.xml for me, and I was just wondering whether I had missed an
existing tool/plugin and was just duplicating work (obviously if I
haven't and this is a useful piece of work, I'd be happy to continue and
share it).
I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone has.
Regards,
Jon
