Hello all,
A first (belated) post to the list here - congrats for the incubator graduation.
And a thanks to David Blevins for some hands on help at JavaOne. I've been
championing OpenEJB since pre 1.0, and have gotten back to it with OpenEJB 3 and
look forward to spreading the word on using OpenEJB 3 as the reference for
learning
EJB 3. However...
I have to second some of the issues posted here, a SNAPSHOT release is badly
needed
(should have been a requirement for graduating IMO).
Numerous maven issues abound (corrupt repository when building both offline and
online, issues with 2.0.6 vs 2.0.5...). Then there's itest failures when dns
doesn't resolve correctly for the local machine (my machine used a numeric name
that
caused lookup failures for cmp tests). I've wasted a lot of time with these and
other issues - especially manually setting Eclipse projects to build OpenEJB 3
in
Eclipse as maven doesn't properly create them (doesn't expand the library
variable).
And then there's the Java 6 compile errors...
I'd suggest changing the following instructions on the website from:
$ cd openejb3
$ mvn clean install -Dassemble
or alternatively when on Unix-like systems
$cd openejb3
$ mvn -o -Dmaven.{test,itest}.skip -Dassemble clean install
to simply:
mvn -Dmaven.{test,itest}.skip -Dassemble clean install
as it's unclear why you would want to build in offline mode initially or to skip
tests only on unix-like platforms.
And you should probably add somewhere on that page that if you're having
problems,
to clear the .m2 repository folder.
I waited until after the graduation to see if perhaps some issues would clear
up but
I'm currently still having build issues:
java/org/apache/openejb/config/AnnotationDeployer.java:[108,17]
package javax.jws does not exist
I'm working on a how-to tutorial for Eclipse+OpenEJB and would like to get past
all
these build issues and move on to helping out on the examples initiative.
thanks,
Dario Laverde
JUG leader - NYCJava.net
> SNAPSHOT RELEASE
> I really want to be able to have a downloadable snapshot release. We
> want to make it easy for people to download and extract a zipped file
> and get started with openejb quickly. Downloading maven first, then
> checking out the whole thing and building it and then extracting the
> snapshot for usage is really not a very comfortable thought if
> somebody had to try to use openejb. It would easily take more than 1.5
> hours of somebody's time, before they can even start using openejb. On
> top of that they will have to find the zip file from
> openejb3\assembly\openejb-standalone\target directory. I dont think
> this is very intuitive , even though it is well documented by Jacek on
> the wiki.
> Maybe we already have a link to the snapshot release, but I dont know
> where to find it
>
> SETUP DOCS
>
> I want to be able to add some documentation, so that if anybody wanted
> to use openejb with eclipse, then they should be able to setup their
> environment in a few minutes, provided they have downloaded eclipse
> and openejb. I would also like to provide some step by step kind of
> docs to write a few ejb's in eclipse, deploy and test them in openejb.
>
> THE PROBLEM
>
> My biggest hurdle at this point is Maven. I do not fully understand it
> and cannot spend enough time on it to be able to fix the problem
> mentioned below:
>
> If i run mvn -Dassemble clean install from root, filtering doesnt
> work. however, if i simply run mvn from the openejb-standalone module,
> filtering works fine. I did try to spend some time on it, but could
> not spend too much time. One thing which i have learnt is that we need
> to specify explicit versions of any plugins we are using in maven. In
> future, maven is going to make it mandatory to specify explicit
> versions, so it is going to be a good idea to adopt that strategy
> right away.
>
> May I also suggest that we do not use beta versions of plugins if they
> have not been properly tested. Lets stick to the stable releases even
> if we lose some cool functionality provided by the beta. We atleast
> know that it works and will continue to work (unless some bug was
> overlooked, but chances of that happening are lesser for stable than
> beta versions)
>
> MAVEN and OPENEJB GURUS -- If you can point me in the right direction
> to fix the above issue, that would be awesome!!. Once the above
> problem is fixed, then if somebody can provide any guidance on how to
> automatically link the snapshot release on the openejb website, that
> would be a big help.
> --
> Karan Malhi
>
