On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote: > kelvin goodson wrote: >> >> I share your pain! I have lost a lot of time trying to influence my >> eclipse workspace to pay heed to the source in my workspace rather >> than requiring source jars. I too see a variety of eclipse dialogs to >> locate source, and recently it seems to prefer only letting me point >> to source jars, so it is impossible to get the debugger to show my >> local mods. >> >> Kelvin. >> > I found a way to do this that works for me. It was based on Simon's > suggestion to run mvn eclipse:eclipse from the top level so that the > Tuscany modules are included in the reactor when generating the eclipse > project files for the samples. > > I had to adapt this slightly because I am generating Eclipse projects > from the contents of the binary distribution, which doesn't include > source for the Tuscany modules. I copied a "hacked" pom.xml into the > root directory of the binary distribution which I had built within the > distribution folder of my svn working copy. The relevant section of > the "hacked" pom.xml is: > > <modules> > <module>../../../../modules</module> > <module>samples</module> > <module>tutorials</module> > <module>demos</module> > </modules> > > The relative path ../../../../modules picks up the modules directory > from my working copy and combines that with the samples, tutorials and > demos directories in the binary distribution. Running mvn eclipse:eclipse > against this pom generates all the Eclipse projects I need, with the correct > cross-dependencies and with "live" source code in the right place (not taken > from jar or zip files). I can import these projects into Eclipse and > everything works as it should. If I then update some Tuscany source code > in my svn working copy to fix a bug that I found when running a sample, > Eclipse will automatically pick up the updated Tuscany source code. > > Simon >
neat! Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
