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From: "Ara Abrahamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, September 10, 2001 4:55 pm
Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-devel] WLS 6.1 support coming up (and sorry for
sending HTMLized mail to the list)
> > It's not a patch - it's a rewrite. Deployment descriptors have
> changed> a lot between WLS 5.1 and WLS 6.0/6.1
> >
> > Besides, I found the WebLogicSubTask to be unwieldy and big. My
> > implementation uses standard <XDoclet:xxx> tags to a greater extent
> > than the old version, so I've put my stuff under a new package
> > (xdoclet.ejb.vendor.weblogic6)
> >
> > What I have now is support for entity beans only in one of the
> weblogic
> > specific deployment descriptors, and I must write the code for the
> > other EJB types too. I also need to write a .j for a new weblogic
> > deployment descriptor.
> >
> > Therefore, I'll wait to post until I have something more complete.
>
> Great! Here comes the question: Can you deliver it in 3-4 days (not
> needed to say tested)? You know we're going to release it in 3-4 days.
> Actually I was going to update the old weblogic stuff to use
> ejb:bean at
> least. If you can deliver it soon then 1-2 days more is not a big deal
> to me, will wait and integrate your stuff and throw old weblogic stuff
> away without updating it.
>
I'll send what I have tonight. Then you can point me on track if I'm
off it. I can have it finished by thursday, I think. I will do some ad-
hoc testing, that is, write a couple of beans using all possible tags,
write an ant script using all possible ant task parameters and tags. -
See if i can compile and deploy the bean correctly.
> > -Later, if I prove productive enough, maybe you'll give me developer
> > access to CVS?
>
> Sure, if you prove to be active :-)
>
We'll see. I have a lot to do :-|
> > I'm stuck with two unconfigurable webmail clients: My ISP's for
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this mail) and iNotes web client for Lotus
> > Notes for my company mail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (earlier
> mails). You
> > tell me which one looks best, and I'll use that. I can send
> ASCII mail
> > from [EMAIL PROTECTED], but only from when my laptop is
> connected> to the Internet and I'm using the Notes program, which
> is usually only
> > at home, since the client I'm working for won't let me connect my
> > laptop at their site. phew!
>
> You can set Notes to use plain text. Not using it right now, but I
> knowit's there in one of the toolbars :o)
>
Sure, but the problem's not with regular Notes client, it's with a 3rd
party webmail client (iNotes) and HTML can't be turned off. However, I
solved it. Using a different emailadress/webclient now. over and out.
> > Did you BTW have a chance to look at the VAJ CMP killer?
>
> I looked :-)
> Seems very good, the xdoclet version will be way easier to write,
> instead of all those .print(" @blabla" ) you can write a simple
> templatefor that.
I agree println is hideous, I'm planning to use a nicer approach. Have
considered using Jenesis (Dim's tip). Then your tip is to use XDoclet's
template engine. Writing a template would require writing a SubTask
implementation that provides all the info required by the template (the
database info). My point is: Are you sure the job would be easier using
XDoclet's template engine than plain println or jenesis? What do you
think?
I don't think that the tool would need one "plugin" for each app
server. It will only generate @ejb:tags, not @appserver:tags. I'd like
comments on this.
> It's not "meet-in-the-middle" though! Ideally you have to use this
> toolonly once, then you can change the @tags. But where do I have
> controlover it? Let's say I don't want field x in my EJB, though
> it's there in
> DB. If you could provide a GUI for that, that'll be great. VAJ
I have thought about putting up a gui for it. The current option is
hand-editing (mostly deleting unwanted generated code) of the generated
files. The tool in its current state serves more as a kick-start for
XDoclet/EJBGen usage, requiring some manual editing, rather than a full
blown tool like VAJ's. We'll see some day...
> loads DB
> schema, then you create a mapping schema. Loading schema means it
> let'syou select the db/tables. Configuring mapping schema involves
> selectingthe field and specifying the mapping and so on. There's
> lot more to that
> than a simple field->attribute mapping. What you gonna do with
> inheritance? It needs human assistance so it needs a GUI, without that
Not sure what you mean by inheritance. It's DB -> EJB. RDBMS don't use
inheritance (!?). I'm not with you here...
> does it help much? Well for some very simple cases yes, but that never
> happened for me ever :-)
> I am very interested in this tool, it complements xdoclet and is
> neededfor jboss/orion/whatever. If we could somehow make the whole
> thinground-trip that would be really useful.
>
> Ara.
>
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