Date: 2004-06-22T04:02:19 Editor: 213.139.147.194 <> Wiki: Jakarta Commons Wiki Page: Betwixt/XDocletIntegration URL: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/Betwixt/XDocletIntegration
no comment Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1,12 +1,37 @@ = XDoclet Integration = -The XDoclet family ([http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/index.html XDoclet] and XDoclet2) are generation engines used for attribute oriented programming. They process meta data (in the form of javadocs tags). +The XDoclet family ([http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/index.html XDoclet] and [http://xdoclet.codehaus.org XDoclet2]) are generation engines used for attribute oriented programming. They process meta data (in the form of javadocs tags). The interest for Betwixt is that java doc tags are a very nice way to mark up mappings. ---- = Design Ideas = + +As XDoclet developer I would suggest to go for new xdoclet-2 plugin, due to easiness of development +and possibility of test coverage. Plugin development for xdoclet-2 is simplier than for old +xdoclet 1.2.x + +To develop a plugin you will need to chekout [ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet-plugins/ xdoclet-plugins] +from sourceforge. This is a maven reactor project, and you can easily add new subdirectory and use other +plugins as templates. I would suggest to use some of jelly-based plugins as base ( for example plugin-hibernate ) +as betwixt plugin vill be producing xml documents. + +XDoclet-2 plugins shall compile without any problem ( assumed you got ejb-2.1.jar in your maven repository). +After you are done, I'm happy to take your changes and commit them to plugins repository. +put 'em into [http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10231 JIRA] + +---- + += Developing plugin & tags = + +Some quick suggestions to plugin development process. + * Base package shall be form org.xdoclet.plugin.betwixt + * Interfaces decalring tags shall go into: org.xdoclet.plugin.betwixt.qtags + * those interfaces shall be marked up by @qtags.something tags to be really validatable + * do not forget to write tests. support classes are provided, and you can see their usage + * in other modules + ---- Up to [:Betwixt] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
