This is great news Erik. Will you update the links in the docs when it's stable?
Aslak > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik > Hatcher > Sent: 2. desember 2002 05:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Xdoclet-devel] XDoclet examples, including Struts, JUnit, > Cactus, and Ant best practices > > > Hesitantly (because I'm afraid of the support issues I'm about to field > :).... > > Here is the much hyped and long awaited sample application that I've > mentioned and promised. It is a trimmed down version of the application > Steve and I developed for our Java Development with Ant book. > > Relevant to Struts folks are these tidbits: > > - XDoclet is generating struts-config.xml, validation.xml, web.xml, > and antbook.tld > > - LabelTag (currently mysteriously busted for required tagging) is > included. This tag styles field labels differently if its in error, and > (when its not busted, it works on my production app actually) it shows > an asterisk by required fields. > > - strutsgen: a one-off starter generation for JSP's and > ApplicationResources.properties snippets for cutting and pasting into > the main application. It uses XDoclet to process a specified form bean > and uses the fields it finds for generation. > > - Use of StrutsTestCase for Cactus testing. > > - Maybe some other Struts goodies lurking there that I've forgotten to > mention. > > For XDoclet folks, these are of interest: > > - The strutsgen subproject uses custom templates and a custom tag > handler demonstrating some powerful features of XDoclet. > > - Use of Ant property substitution in XDoclet tags. > > - Use of XDoclet template tags in merge points, showing how to do some > conditional things out-of-the-box with XDoclet (turning Cactus servlet > on and off, in this example). > > The application itself is a document search engine, based on Lucene, and > should run out of the box in Tomcat or JBoss. It even has the ability > to (at build time) toggle between whether to use a session bean or not > (functionality is the same either way). By default, you can simply > deploy the WAR that you've built and it will work without EJB, but if > you are interested in exploring the session bean piece it can be > turned on. > > I am in the process of creating much more detailed documentation, but I > wanted to get this out sooner rather than later. If you find any > problems or have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know so > I can refine it and post updates. > > The one documentation I need to provide now is to note that you'll need > j2ee.jar to build. I include all other API's. To build, unzip the file > (link below) and it will expand into JavaDevWithAnt directory. In that > directory, run Ant. If you have J2EE_HOME set you shouldn't need to do > anything... just "ant". You'll also need to build a site index, so run > "ant build-site-index". This is intentionally two separate steps. If > you don't have J2EE_HOME set, then you need to provide j2ee.jar to the > build. Do it this way: > > ant -Dj2ee.jar=/path/to/my/j2ee.jar > > Where "/path/to/my/j2ee.jar" is the actual path to your j2ee.jar > > Post any questions/problems to me directly. E-mail me at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Download: > http://www.ehatchersolutions.com/downloads/JavaDevWithAnt-0.1.zip > > There will be updates in the next week or so as I polish the > documentation and address any issues that turn up. > > Erik > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Xdoclet-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Xdoclet-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-devel
