[jbosstools-dev] Re: [Fwd: [Soa-tools-list] a rough esb project wizard is ready]

[John Graham]

I'd like to get some impressions about the usability of this wizard.

First, however, a note: Denny is building this wizard within the
structures defined by WTP, and so the options are somewhat constrained.

The first wizard page (attachment: esb-wizard-1.jpg) asks for a "Target
Runtime" and a "JBoss ESB Version." Unless we're expecting that multiple
ESB instances (and versions) can run in one AS configuration, then
ideally I think the ESB version should be determined automatically by
the wizard, based on the target runtime. Also, it seems that we are hard
coding the runtime values (4.2 and 4.3), whereas it would be better to
determine the version based on the target runtime (for instance, I had
JBoss ESB 4.4 installed, and it was confusing to have to select 4.3 for
it.)

The second wizard page (attachment: esb-wizard-2.jpg) configures the
project structure and other meta-data (e.g. the facet). It asks for the
"JBoss ESB Runtime," but that was provided on the first page. I don't
see a use case where a different runtime value on the second page would
make sense, so I suggest that the wizard should just take the value from
the first page, and not show this detail on the second page.

Don't know if this is related to the appearance of the Rosetta jar in
the project classpath or not: On my system (FC8), the drop down for
"JBoss ESB Runtime" did not work (attachement: esb-wizard-2-err.jpg);
instead a thin line appeared.

-- John



On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:37 +0800, Denny Xu wrote:
> Hi Jeff
> I include some mail-lists,  someone in the list may be interested in it too.
> 
> > 1) The project wizard did not add jbossesb-rossetta.jar to the classpath, I had to do this myself.
> >   
> Did you specify a esb runtime when creating the project? I tested it and 
> the jar is included in the classpath under "JBoss ESB Runtime" container.
> > 2) Providers shows up below services in the xml source, and the providers element is red x and red underline with the message: invalid content was found, no child elements expected.
> > 3) Filter would not always show up right away when creating a JMS Provider Bus (thought we were going to name these channels?). If I moved the "bus" up or down, or otherwise then it showed up.
> > 4) Should id be busid in the name (it is in the xml)?
> > 5) Under providers, JMS Provider, name should be selectable from a list, e.g., JBossMQ?
> >   
> about 2, 3, 4 and 5, it seems that it's something related to 
> jboss-esb.xml editor, right?  Max , do you have any comments?
> >
> > It does not appear that you can create an esb archive or deploy yet, so I did try that.
> >   
> You can find the esb archive under jboss esb server deployment folder, 
> such as: /home/fugang/jboss-all/jbossesb-server-4.3.GA/server/default/deploy
> it's a *.esb folder contains all stuff that a esb need.
> 
> 
> Denny
> 
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Denny Xu" <dxu at redhat.com>
> > To: "Jeffrey Delong" <jdelong at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2008 8:55:59 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: [Fwd: [Soa-tools-list] a rough esb project wizard is ready]
> >
> > Hi Jeff
> >
> > Jeffrey Delong wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Danny,
> >>
> >> Is this plugin compatible with Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) or 3.3 (Europa)?
> >>   
> >>     
> > Eclipse 3.4 is fine
> >   
> >> Where specifically can I access the plugin? I would like to test it out? Is there a list of required dependencies?
> >>   
> >>     
> > the plugin has been added to nightly build,  so you can get it from 
> > jboss tools nightly build: 
> > http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/nightly/,  it requires WTP 3.0.
> >
> > thanks very much to test it, if you have any suggestion and requirement 
> > and any problem,  please fell free to let me know.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Denny
> >   
> 
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