Hi Robert,
I am using Appfuse as the basis for several projects for my employer,
which specifically prohibits the use of Maven. I use Maven to create
the archetype, do appfuse:full-source, and then run jetty:run. I then
copy the jars from target/appname-1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/lib to
srv/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib, and then proceed to develop using ant. I
am developing for deployment to Weblogic, and am able to proceed without
using Maven further. It is handy to keep the Maven repository around,
though, for access to to the source jars.
Hope this helps,
Mark
On 12/15/2010 01:04 PM, Robert Hume wrote:
Hi,
I'm evaluating AppFuse as a platform for a new application I'm
building. I'm concerned it might not be right for my needs, mainly
because I'm having trouble integrating the sample project with
Eclipse. Here's my details and then a couple questions:
DETAILS:
I'm building a new web application with Java. The intention is it use
Eclipse 3.7 (Helios), JSF 2.0 and/or jQuery UI for the front end,
GlassFish3, Spring, Hibernate, and Oracle for the back end.
I'm evaluating AppFuse and an application platform and I have some
questions -- I hope you can help!
I did the Quickstart here:
http://appfuse.org/display/APF/AppFuse+QuickStart
... and everything went fine. I was pleasantly surprised when the
demo web app appeared with it's user crud functionality.
Then I tried the steps to integrate with Eclipse and everything got a
little crazier:
http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Eclipse
These instructions appear to be for Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto) and I'm
using Eclipse 3.7 (Helios) -- I'm hoping that's not a problem.
I'm at the point where I can see my project in Eclipse but there are
many "red Xs" that I can't seem to get rid of. Also, I can't seem to
easily launch the web app in my own web server (GlassFish) with
Eclipse's WTP tools.
I notice there are instructions "Integration with Eclipse Web Tools
Project (WTP)", here:
http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Eclipse
... stupid question, and I really required to edit those files
manually to get things to work?
QUESTIONS:
It seems AppFuse is tightly integrated with Maven and that I won't be
able to use a regular Eclipse project to debug and run the
application. Is this the case? If I proceed with AppFuse + Eclipse +
GlassFish, am I in for a world of hurt?
Alternately, is there an alternate way to download and use AppFuse
without Maven? That is, create a Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse, add
the AppFuse jars, and proceed that way?
In the end, I need to know if AppFuse is the right framework for me to
build my application on -- any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading,
rh
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