Warning - I'm brand new to appfuse and may betray my ignorance with the following questions.
I've read a bunch of the docs on appfuse:gen but some basic stuff seems to be missing. I used mvn to create an appfuse struts 2 basic application. I think the version was 2.0-m5 but I didn't make a note last week when I ran the archetype and don't know where to look on my application to find out. I went through the tutorial and all that works. 1) Before running mvn appfuse:gen -Dentity=Name, what do you need to do. I get the impression that I should create a pojo similar to Person.java as defined in the tutorial. That's what I did. 2) If creating the POJO is the right thing to do, where do you put it. I decided to put mine in src/main/java/com/mycompany/app/model. I used my own package names when I did the tutorial. 3) Where do you need to be when you run the mvn appfuse:gen command. I assume you do it in the base folder created when the architype was run. This is the folder with src and target folders in it and the main pom.xml file. 4) What gets created by appfuse:gen? I assumed it should be inside target. Googling for 'appfuse:gen' reveals some error messages shown here and there that would indicate target/generated-sources should now have files. 5) Does the "SUCCESS" message at the end of the mvn appfuse:gen mean the files were created? I couldn't find any messages showing anything was created the first time because of all the 'downloading' messages. So I ran it again and still don't see them, though the "downloading" messages only appear for 6 or 8 files. I also can't find any generated files (or even the folder mentioned before.) 6) What sort of problems in the POJO would cause NO error messages, SUCCESSFUL completion and no generated files? (Unless, of course, I just can't find the files.) I suggest the end of the tutorial indicate, one more time, that you don't always have to go through all that to get a simple CRUD screen for a simple POJO. By the time I had finished, I only had a vague memory that I had read that somewhere. I also suggest the appfuse maven plugin docs indicate the answers to some of the questions above. (Of course, I could be totally confused about this and all the docs in the world wouldn't solve my personal problems.) Thanks. -- -- Lee Meador Sent from gmail. My real email address is lee AT leemeador.com
