[forge-dev] Food for thought: Forge scaffolding is not 'continuous'

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

This is in the pipeline, but not there yet. Mostly I think the feature you
are referring to is for communicating file changes *to* JBoss tools.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Rodney Russ <rruss at redhat.com> wrote:

> Isn't there already a mechanism for recognizing changes for the integration
> with JBoss Tools?  Or is that just one way?
>
> ----- "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>
> > To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:28:25 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> > Subject: Re: [forge-dev] Food for thought: Seam Forge scaffolding is not
> 'continuous'
> >
> > This is possibly because if you don't "reload" the entity after making
> > changes in an external editor, Forge doesn't know the file has
> > changed, and rewrites the same contents... probably something to fix.
> >
> > That's my guess as to what they are referring to. Good point though.
> >
> > ~Lincoln
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Jason Porter <
> > lightguard.jp at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm a little confused by this thinking. Forge will work with whatever
> > you have there. Generated or not. It isn't going to overwrite anything
> > you put in there, maybe they were using an old version?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 23, 2011, at 22:50, Richard Kennard <
> > richard at kennardconsulting.com > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > There's a nice looking presentation up at...
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.slideshare.net/jbaruch/pure-java-rad-and-scaffolding-tools-race
> > >
> > > ...that slightly 'dings' Seam Forge for not being 'continuous'
> > (slide 43). I asked the authors what they meant by this. They said:
> > >
> > > "The reason we stated SeamForge scaffolding as one-time is not
> > because of Metawidget, but because of the fact that generated code
> > inside the entities is
> > > not separated from user-created one. e.g. - I generated Person
> > entity, then changed stuff and added some stuff to it, and SeamForge's
> > entities editing
> > > feature is not usable for me anymore (Metawidget's forms rendering
> > will still work, of course). Just for the contrast, Spring Roo
> > separated the
> > > user-generated content from auto-generated content by using
> > Inter-type declarations. I can edit my entities the way I like and Roo
> > can mess with its ITDs
> > > the way it likes"
> > >
> > > Just some food for thought?
> > >
> > > Richard.
> > >
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