Thanks Mohammed, I have been able to finally fix the issue (and understand quite a bit of maven in the process :) ). The whole thing was a combination of a broken plugin and my lack of understanding of lifecycle phases and how it applies differently to packaging types like war, jar and pom. Finally with the help of the resources-plugin, I have been able to fix the build issue.
I am at the airport right now with a very slow internet connection, and really have to do some clean up of the pom's and assembly descriptors before I can submit a usable patch. Will try and do it tomorrow. Regarding manually building the snapshot, wouldnt there be an easier way to do that. I am aware of the continuum plugin but am not sure if that could be used to automatically generate the snapshot and add a link to the site. Now that we have the build issue fixed, we should have the ability to do that. Is there any reason why Prasad does the build manually? Currently I couldnt find much on eclipse on the openejb website. If Dario has already started to document this, then I would wait for him to post. Meanwhile, I am going to use this snapshot build to create some examples of creating EJB's with openejb. What happened to the eclipse plugin though? Is anybody working on that?. I have a semi-working swing based admin console. An eclipse plugin would've been cool. Also, do you know if there is any web based administrative console for openejb? On 6/18/07, Mohammad Nour El-Din <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Karan... On 6/15/07, Karan Malhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 For this issue I have a nice solution Prasad follows for providing daily snapshots for Apache Gernimo. At the end of each day, I will provide snapshots of OpenEJB3.0.0 with the build logs, just like what Prasad does and I will send a note with that on the dev-list. 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. Did u give sometime to search for that on the OpenEJB confluence http://docs.codehaus.org/display/OPENEJB/Home, I think you will find such info there. And if not I am glad to provide these info for OpenEJB users. 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. In this point I am just like you :), I think we both need help from Apache Maven2 gurus. -- > Karan Malhi > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour
-- Karan Malhi
