Juergen,
Thanks for being vocal about samples. This is definitely an area that
needs some love in Geronimo.
Juergen Weber wrote:
Creating or modifying deployment plans is quite often a real nightmare.
Usually you try to find a sample to adopt from. If only the samples were
current ..
Is there a particular sample that you are having problems with that is
not current? I believe that all of the 2.1 samples currently build and
can be deployed into a Geronimo 2.1.2 server. There are a few that
still need to be validated and updated ... but most are functional. No
doubt that we are long overdue in getting these released.
So I suggest to include all samples (from
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxSAMPLES/index.html) that are supposed to run on
a given Geronimo version in the archive of the Geronimo distribution itself
or in an archive immediately beside it (right now there is a Download Sample
applications link, but it does not point to a sample.tar.gz as the title
hints).
I personally agree and had proposed that we release samples with each
server release. However I could not gain consensus on this and there
are some valid reasons to release samples independently and less often:
- First, samples should not require major updates for minor Geronimo
releases. So ideally, we would like to release samples a Geronimo 2.2
release and have them work without change in Geronimo 2.2.1. We feel
that this is what users will be doing with most applications and this
can also help us validate compatibility between maintenance releases.
- Achieving compatibility has required some fixes and such. At the
moment we are planning to release samples that require Geronimo 2.1.2.
We have already validated that these samples will install and function
on an upcoming Geronimo 2.1.3 release.
- Due to the modifications required for this we are not planning to
release samples for anything prior to Geronimo 2.1.2
And, most important, it should be guaranteed that automatically deploying
and testing the samples was part of the build process that built the
Geronimo distribution.
The Weblogic server installation package does contain a sample directory
tree.
I created http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4281
for this.
Thanks,
Juergen
BTW: I think JEE V10.0 should totally dispense with XML descriptors and have
all properties in compiled class files. Generating them is as easy as
hitting CTRL-S in Eclipse and the Java compiler can check lots of things
which the XML editor does not. Java code you can even remote-debug.
