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List:       openejb-development
Subject:    Re: [QUESTION] OpenEJb plugin for Eclipse
From:       Jonathan Gallimore <jonathan.gallimore () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-02-21 12:02:37
Message-ID: 47BD685D.8020403 () jrg ! me ! uk
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Hi David,

I've added a patch to the JIRA issue this morning. I've used this to add 
annotations to an app I work one for my day job, which only uses session 
and message driven beans and it seems to have done a pretty good job.

If you're able to take a look I'd certainly be very grateful, please do 
let me know what you think.

I've made some progress in terms of generating annotations for CMP 
entity beans, but I would find it particularly useful to have a 
discussion about what the best way to go about this is - I think we'll 
probably have to look at the CMP class, see what it inherits from and 
then change it from an abstract object to an non-abstract one, adding 
the right fields to match the getters/setters, and then adding the 
annotations.

I've got a bit of a TODO list below, but if there's anything else that 
anyone would find useful, please let me know.

Jon

David Blevins wrote:
> I keep meaning to get involved here, and I really should as it's not 
> fair to you having to work off in a corner.  As you state, it's far 
> more motivating to have someone to work with.  Tends to lead to 
> smaller more frequent patches, discussion, and all sorts of goodies :)
>
> If you can submit what you have as a patch I'll take a look at the 
> whole thing.
>
> -David
>
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Gallimore wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Many thanks for your email!
>>
>> That's right, it isn't currently in the official repository, its 
>> currently in the sandbox/openejb-eclipse-plugin area. If you wanted 
>> to team up that would be great - I would certainly find it very 
>> motivating :). I think there's still a bit of work to do before its 
>> ready, the following springs immediately to mind:
>>
>>   * Need to make the server view work with different version strings -
>>     currently it works with openejb-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT but
>>     openejb-3.0.0-beta2 for example didn't work (or at least it didn't
>>     last time I tried)
>>   * Make the PDE tests run during a Maven build (I've made a start on
>>     this, but its not quite there)
>>   * Add annotation generation for Entity beans (again, I've made a
>>     start, I can get the orm.xml file that's generated from
>>     ejb-jar.xml and openejb-jar.xml and passed to OpenJPA, and read it
>>     into the JAXB tree. I think generating most of the annotations for
>>     entity beans will be pretty straightforward from that structure.)
>>   * I think some other refactorings for Entity beans will be needed -
>>     such as making the bean class non-abstract and adding in the
>>     member variables.
>>
>>
>> I guess the question is what's the best way to proceed - I currently 
>> have some code in my own SVN repo which I ought to create a patch of 
>> and get into the sandbox. I think it would also be useful if pop some 
>> notes on the plugin up on the wiki. What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks again for your e-mail, I'm looking forward to working with you 
>> and making progress with the plugin!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> is it right that your Eclipse plugin isn't part of the official
>>> OpenEJB SVN repo? If yes, has it been discussed on the ML to get
>>> the code into the OpenEJB repository?
>>>
>>> Maybe if you need some help to get the plugin into the OpenEJB
>>> repository we could team up to make it happen...
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Daniel S. Haischt
>>







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