Rob, that did it! THANKS!
Now, how do I make it output a .jar file? Really, I'm not kidding, I fooled
with it for an hour trying to make it output a .jar. I know that sounds
stupid, but I'm really not stupid, and I can't see the way to do it...
Thanks...
Jim
--On Friday, August 25, 2000 11:22 AM +0100 Robert Hargreaves
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok this is how I got it to work:
>
> 1) Open the ejbassembler and got to File --> Open
>
> 2) The first trick is to browse to your application directory (the one in
> server.xml that is specified by <application name="appName"
> path="C:\OrionApp" /> where appName is your application name and
> C:\OrionApp is the directory is resides in (contains
> \META-INF\ejb.jar.xml and also contains \orion\orion-ejb-jar.xml)
>
> 3) Highlight the aforementioned directory but dont double click on it to
> open it. Click Open and a new TabbedPane will appear with the name of the
> directory as its title e. g.C:\OrionApp. If its got C:\OrionApp\OrionApp
> as the title then you haven't done step 2 properly.
>
> 4)If you already have beans deployed for this app, if you expand the Beans
> node on the tree you get a list of deployed beans.
>
> 5) To add a new bean, go to Jar --> Add EJB
>
> 6) Choose the type of bean you want to add.
>
> 7) In Remote type the name of the Remote Interface including its package
> name. eg. The Remote Interface is Address and the package is com.business
> the type com.business.Address.
>
> 8) The other two fields are filled in automatically and if you used
> ejbmaker to create them you shouldn't have to change them. eg Home
> Interface = com.business.AddressHome; Bean implementatioan class =
> com.business.AddressEJB.
>
> 9) Choose the primary key type (for entity beans). We only use long type
> oid's so we type in java.lang.Long.
>
> 10) Click on OK and the new bean is added to into the tree, at the bottom
> of the Beans node.
>
> Thats it.
>
> Let me know if that doesn't work,
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob Hargreaves.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 24 August 2000 18:01
> To: Orion-Interest
> Cc: Robert Hargreaves
> Subject: RE: 1.2 GUI tools - Do they work?
>
>
> I agree that if I could get it to work it would sure not be pointless, so
> that why I tried. Maybe you can help me?
>
> If I click "add bean" I then get a dialog with three text fields in which
> I am supposed to specify a bean. What should I type there? A full path
> to the class file? Just the bean name? Whatever I type, it says it can't
> find it. I t complaines specifficially about the actual bean. It never
> complains abut the first two entries (I think they were the remote
> interface and home interface, but thats off the top of my head).
>
> I did see it automatically added EJB after the name, which for my stuff
> is wrong. I changed the EJB to Bean, which is the correct name of my
> beans. Could that be it?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Jim
>
> --On Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:09 AM +0100 Robert Hargreaves
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've been using the ejbassembler with 1.2 successfully since it came out
>> and it works great (apart from the JTree not showing on startup). Don't
>> really understand why its 'pointless', I mean what else is quicker when
>> deploying CMP entity beans?
>>
>> Just my ten bob.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rob Hargreaves
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 24 August 2000 07:30
>> To: Orion-Interest
>> Subject: RE: 1.2 GUI tools - Do they work?
>>
>>
>> Never used the assembler (pointless tool IMHO *g*) but the ejb maker
>> works? Save only saves a skeleton. You're looking for "Create Beans At"
>> then select a folder (don't open it, select it) and hit create or save
>> button (can't remember)
>>
>> Presto!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Archer
>> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:50 PM
>> To: Orion-Interest
>> Subject: 1.2 GUI tools - Do they work?
>>
>>
>> Hi All...
>>
>> I have just lost the battle with the GUI tools that came with Orion 1.2,
>> which I realize is a beta.
>>
>> Are they supposed to work? I got the console to work, but I was unable to
>> get the EJB Maker or the EJB Assembler to work.
>>
>> In the case of the EJB Maker, hitting the save button when I wanted to
>> create my beans did nothing (I was able to save the skeleton). This was
>> true whether I asked for 2.0 or 1.1 version beans.
>>
>> In the cas of the EJB Assembler, I was unable to add beans. I would try
>> to add a bean and would get the dialog that asks for the name of the
>> bean, but no matter what I typed it complained it could not find it. I
>> tried just the bean name, a full path with drive letter, a full pate
>> without the drive letter, a partial path, with the .class extensions and
>> without. No luck.
>>
>> If they are supposed to work, I would sure appreciate some hints. If not,
>> thats OK. Heck, they are beta. But at least I'll know not to bother. I
>> have killed the entire evening on deployment issues (very little
>> success). Time for bed.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
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