Hi Erik,
At the moment, I'm part way through getting our applications working on
Geronimo / Websphere-CE. We basically have two applications - our core
application which is used for building publications, and another app
that acts as a asset management system, and integrates with our core app
using JMS. The first one of the two is now up and running on a
Websphere-CE server, and hasn't really taken much to get it working at all.
Largely all I needed the J2G tool to do was create some new deployment
descriptors, which it did without any real problems. I needed to add
some EJB refs to my geronimo-web.xml, and I needed to create a
jms-resource-plan.xml myself. At first glance it didn't appear to
generate much in the way of <message-driven> elements and I was a fair
way through creating a patch to generate what I could from ejb-jar.xml
and then I realised there was some code to do it from annotations in the
source. By far and away the biggest problem I encountered was with how
our EARs were laid out. I think JBoss is too forgiving with its
classloader - we had a core.jar file inside our EJB.jar and nothing in
any jar manifests that specified any kind of classpath. (I believe it
was done in JBoss-IDE using this:
http://docs.jboss.com/jbosside/tutorial/build/en/pdf/JBossIDE-Tutorial.pdf
as a guide). I needed to do quite a bit of work to get it repackaged so
that Websphere would be happy with it.
I now need to do the same thing with the other app - I think this will
be more involved, we've used more JBoss specific classes in places, so
it'll hopefully be a good test of the J2G tool in terms of its code
conversion abilities. I'll let you know how I get on.
Overall I thought J2G was great (although it took ages to get it to
build - it wasn't obvious that Maven was going nuts because I was using
JDK1.6 - I couldn't find a binary on the web - is it worth adding a link
from the cwiki pages?) The reason behind exploring the XDoclet route, is
rather than 'migrating' to Geronimo, we'd like to add it to the app
servers we can support. Going forward, we'd like new beans we add etc to
work on both without needing to run J2G again, or editing two sets of
files. But in terms of getting the apps going ont Geronimo in the first
place, J2G has made the task much easier.
I'd be more than happy to contribute to the J2G project if I can.
Hope that's helpful.
Regards
Jon
Erik B. Craig wrote:
Jon,
I am one of the developers that contributed to j2g most recently, and
I am wondering if you had any specific comments on it, or thoughts on
any areas that you thought could use some improvement? I've been
hoping someone would, like yourself, use it in a real world scenario
to really give it a solid test, as the best I've been able to do are
'mock' situations in testing. Any input you could give would be great,
especially if it would be something you might be interested in helping
out with a bit, as well. Oh, and another quick thing, did the version
you played with incorporate eclipse ui plugins and annotations support
yet, or no?
Thanks!
--
Erik B. Craig
On 8/14/07, *Jonathan Gallimore* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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
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