I'm just getting started with AppFuse, so this might be old news... But I wanted to suggest a technique for structuring your AppFuse-based projects (for those using subversion anyway).
IMO, ideally you may want to work in an appfuse:full-source (or war:inplace) expanded view of your project, but that puts your code and appfuse code together - which isn't ideal for version control and upgrading. Furthermore, it is somewhat difficult to switch between a collapsed appfuse project and an expanded one for serious debugging. Svn:externals is a really good solution for a situation like this. I'm using AppFuse with svn:externals to create a full source project, with my code brought in via an svn:external reference. This way, I can drop my code into multiple concurrent versions of AppFuse without problem, since it is just a pointer out to my code and subversion overlays the two for me automatically. This clearly separates my code from appfuse code and when I check in, the files know which subversion repository or path to commit to. Anyway, I've found this a useful technique applied to AppFuse-based projects, so I thought I'd pass it along... Dean
