John,
I'll try to do some speculating based on what you say....
1. Your project relies on Eclipse's Incremental build to copy the .gif
resources to the bin output folder of your project
2. WOLips compile target does *not* copy those resources to bin, but
only compiles .java files
3. Your jarring of the client side code (added to the build.xml I
presume?) jars the content of the bin folder
If this is all true (and you could verify), then I guess the problem
in the situation is that WOCompile does not deal with anything that's
not a .java file. Ergo only java sources get compiled and copied to
the bin output folder. Which would be a fundamental difference between
Eclipse's incremental builder and the WOLips ant compilation process.
Workarounds I can think of:
1. Separate your client and server projects. This is what I do,
however I do not do WebStart. If you are, this might be slightly more
difficult to do (though not at all impossible). However it might not
chime well with your deployment process.
2. Add some ant magic to your build.xml to manually copy .gif (and
other resources) to your bin output as a part of the ant build.
3. Continue with the hack that you are already doing.
4. David Avendasora and Mike Schrag have been working on WOJC
additions to the ant build process (which are AFAICS all WebStart
focused), so you might want to coordinate with them.
On a side note, the first thing I do for my new WO projects is turn
the Incremental builder off (in project properties). I rely solely on
WOLips ant, exactly to avoid this kind of confusion. However, I think
that the JC / WebStart additions to WOLips depend on it...
Hope this helps,
F
p.s. - also I'd be interested to hear how exactly are you setting up
your client/server code, perhaps we could discuss it...
On Jan 20, 2009, at 06:52, John Pollard wrote:
Hi List,
I have a framework with a classes.include.patternset that ensures
gif resource files are included in my jar (why I need this isn't
really relevant, but it is for accessing the image resources in a
java client application).
If I use Eclipse, Project, Clean on this framework, followed by
WOLips Ant Tools, Install then all is well, my gif files are
embedded in the installed framework's jar.
If however I then use my deployment script to do a command line ant
clean install, the gifs do not appear in the jar.
If I follow that with another WOLips Ant Tools, Install from within
Eclipse, the gifs are still missing. The only fix is to do an
Eclipse Project, Clean again.
A workaround is to drop the "clean" from the command line call to ant.
I have WOLips nightly from about 2 weeks ago and Eclipse.
The ant command that drops the gifs is:
ant -lib /Developer/Applications/eclipse/plugins/
org.objectstyle.wolips.woproject.ant_3.4.5594/lib clean install
Thanks for any help.
John
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