And it can be excruciating! Isn't the priciple of software development 'supposed' to focus on actual development and not fancy tooling crap? And especially IBM seems to have lost it or may I say trying to make some really cool,WAS/RAD guys ?
Come on people, IBM is an early backer of Aries Blue Print project and I cannot even port/migrate the Blog sample to RAD? I bet 100 dollors that some of the giuys who developed Aries are IBM'ers. Makes me think, what the fuck! Are we here to solve the customer's problem or becoming tools expert? Kind of sucks because I used to love IBM, started my carrier with OS/2. Where have you been IBM? Cheers Matt On Aug 6, 2011 9:32 PM, "Matt Madhavan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alasdair, > Thank you very much for your reply. I tried your steps. But I do not see > the target/<artifact-id>/META-INF folder in any of my projects! > > But I can configure the Maven Bundle Plugin to create an > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF anywhere I want. > > I have made some progress in a similar way (configuring the Maven Bundle > Plugin) to create a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF etc. > > Problem now I face is with a WAB (WEB) project. If I build a EBA everything > works fine. But I want to build a .app project (thats kind of specific to > RAD/WAS). When I deploy the .app it complains that my WAB is bad because it > cannot find the WEB-INF/web.xml file. > > I really would like to talk to some IBM RAD guys. I have posted this on the > IBM OSGi forum as well - but not much luck. > > Any ideas from the IBM guys? > > Matt > > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Alasdair Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I haven't tried with RAD, but using the IBM Rational Development Tools for >> OSGi Applications from Eclipse Marketplace I managed to get them to >> understand the project with the following steps: >> >> 1. Import the eba maven project into eclipse >> 2. Right click on the project >> 3. Select to create a new Folder called META-INF >> 4. Expand Advanced (at the bottom) >> 5. Check link to someone in the filesystem. >> 6. Navigate to the maven project dir on disk (you can do this by using the >> PROJECT_LOC variable and extending it). And go down to the >> target/<artifact-id>/META-INF directory. You want to link to this one. When >> entered click OK >> 7. Select Properties >> 8. Select Project Facets >> 9. Convert to a faceted project by clicking the link >> 10. Uncheck the Java project facet >> 11. Check the OSGi Application project facet >> 12. Click OK >> >> I haven't tried to deploy it to WAS, but provided that the bundles are all >> in the internal bundle repository I kind of expect it to work. >> >> Alasdair >> >> On 5 August 2011 18:51, Matt Madhavan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Anybody out there please - Any help will be appreciated! >>> >>> Matt >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Matt Madhavan <[email protected] >>> >wrote: >>> >>> > Hello, >>> > I have helped set up an OSGi development for one of my client. >>> > >>> > It involves Blueprint/PaxEam/Maven etc. I like to keep the maven and >>> also >>> > the ITest feature. >>> > >>> > But the target deployment platform is WAS/Equinox. >>> > >>> > I was wondering what are the steps to add the IBM RAD facet so that RAD >>> > recognizes the Vanilla Aries Blog projects as RAD proejcts as well. In >>> this >>> > way I can still use Maven/ Itest, do mvn pax:provision to start a Felix >>> > container etc and still take advantage of the RAD/WAS. >>> > >>> > My main issue is enabling the Aries Web Bundle so that when deployed as >>> > part an *.app (not EBA) it is recognized as a Web bundle. Please note >>> that >>> > if I build an EBA I'm able to deploy. >>> > >>> > I just want to be able to rt click on a WAS server instance from with in >>> > RAD and deploy an .app bundle. >>> > >>> > Any help will be appreciated. >>> > >>> > Thanks >>> > Matt >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alasdair Nottingham >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> Alasdair Nottingham >> [email protected] >>
