Hey Rob, Yes, this is something we have talked about in the past. There are in fact 4 different code paths :) Two for export (one for EE 5 and one for J2EE 1.4 and below). And two for deployable (one for EE5 and one for J2EE 1.4 and below).
One step in the right direction I was hoping to make during M6 is consolidating the export (and import) functions to run on top of IArchive (i.e. remove the CommonArchive code path here). The step would be to combine both J2EE and JEE deployable factories into one; this could occur in parallel, but we haven't made plans to address this. The final step would be to take the combined deployable factory and rework it to also use IArchive, and again, we have not made plans to address this. Thank you, Jason A. Sholl [email protected] 919-543-0011 (t/l 441-0011) From: Rob Stryker <[email protected]> To: "General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues." <[email protected]> Date: 02/13/2009 04:31 AM Subject: [wtp-dev] Regarding the wisdom of export vs deployable factory Hi all: Currently there are two ways to turn a project into a jar / war / ear etc. The first is to use the export menu selections. The second is to use a deployable server adapter. My question is, what is the wisdom between having two different sections of code (not just two entry points, but 2 different pieces of code entirely) in charge of compiling the output archive? As an example, the JEEDeployableFactory exposes a webtools project in the servertools API. You also have the J2EEExportArtifactOperation for exporting. They both seem to do much of the same thing, though slightly differently. One (JEEFlexProjDeployable) uses just the virtual component model. The other (export) is checking ComponentArchiveLoadAdapter and a whole host of parallel model code. Wouldn't it be wise to have both the export functionality and the deployable factories be simply entry points to the same code, rather than having huge swaths of duplicate code with slight but undefined differences between the two? I do remember in the past there were also inconsistencies between the export behavior and a server adapter's behavior because of the differences in the export vs deployable code. Any thoughts? - Rob Stryker _______________________________________________ wtp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev
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