Hi
Ted,
Thanks for
hosting this event and I will be there. I would like to bring up a question/issue now that I
hope can be responded to either
on the call or here in the mailing list if possible.
The JSF Tools
project has a concept we call JSF Libraries. For now, this is really
just a named collection of jars that a user can add or remove from a JSF faceted
project. When we orignally conceived the idea, pre-R0.7, we intended
them to become classpath containers in the project for build time and, if the library was specified to be
deployed, we would use the extension that had existed at the time to copy the
jars. Unfortunately that hook dissappeared and so for M1 of the JSF
tools, we were forced to copy the jars to WEB-INF/lib in the project at facet
installation time.
With the "External
JARs not copied to correct module folder in deployable" (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=116783) we had hoped that we
would be getting that hook
back. Instead, external jars can be made "J2EE Module Dependencies"
which puts the jar on the build time classpath and if checked, deployed as
well. However this feature doesn't yet deal with CP
containers. We have entered an enhancement request for this, "To support classpath containers in J2EE
Module dependency" (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128851) . We were asked to propose a patch for
this.
However, I was
hoping to get clarity on whether this feature was intended to support folks
like ourselves who want to participate in deployment but may not be
ServerRuntime specific. We see publishTasks ext-pt as being almost
what we want, except that it requires a specific (or list of) ServerRuntime typeid which doesn't apply for us
necessarily.
So before we start
proposing a patch to support CP containers as J2EE module dependencies so that
we can get the deploy-time file copying, would proposing to create a extension
point that is server runtime agnostic be
better? Would
changing publishTasks to accept "*" in
typeIds and always be called for any server work? Are there
others out there who are looking for something like this?
Best
regards,
Gerry
Kessler
JSF Tools Team
Would like to invite interested
parties to participate in a WTP server tools architecture call on
Monday.
This is an opportunity to discuss
any outstanding architecture issues and to design solutions -- perhaps
temporarily setting aside annoying practicalities like schedule and api
changes :-)
I’ll try to send out an agenda doc
Monday morning with some topics. The primary one for us is the facet
runtime bridge. But please feel free to send me any other items you’d
like to discuss.
Time: Monday, 2/27 11 AM PST
/ 2 PM EST
Toll free: 866-214-3176
Passcode:
8870689
Thanks,
Ted
tbashor@xxxxxxx
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