[seam-dev] Seam 2.1 branch

[Pete Muir]

On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:54, Pete Muir wrote:

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> On 21 Apr 2009, at 07:26, Dan Allen wrote:
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>> 6. The booking example needs to be ported to run on JSR-299 (very  
>> high priority).
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>> I've begun the work on this, focusing initially on the build (I  
>> will need lots of advice on how to best *implement* the  
>> functionality using 299). Right now, I have three pom.xml files  
>> committed:
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>> modules/version-matrix/pom.xml
>> examples/pom.xml
>> examples/booking/pom.xml
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>> They depend on each other ascending the list. Pete, you mentioned  
>> that the Seam version-matrix should use the WB version-matrix as  
>> the parent.
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> Probably a good idea.
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>> I have not done that yet (since I don't need that many dependencies  
>> yet given what I have so far). Shane, please feel free to hack this  
>> file up as needed. I just had to have it in place to do anything w/  
>> the examples.
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>> The good news is that the seam-booking.war can be built and  
>> deployed to JBoss AS 5. It doesn't really do anything yet except  
>> show the home page. Tomorrow I can dive in and start to get a  
>> screen or two going.
>>
>> I would then like to research getting Maven to deploy the  
>> examples...only falling back to Ant if I am just fighting with it  
>> too much.
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> I've done this twice and it's a nightmare ;-)
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>> Couple of questions so far.
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>> 1. Can I use the standard src/main/webapp for the web assets? The  
>> webbeans build uses WebContent which I guess is for JBDS. But I  
>> think I can get JBDS to work with src/main/webapp just fine. I'm  
>> also open to the folder named "view". I really dislike the folder  
>> name WebContent.
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> I think we should go with the WTP standard here.
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>> 2. We are setting JSF to version 2.0.0.PR2, right? I guess later if  
>> we need to we can think about how to enable JSF 1.2 in the build,  
>> but I'm assuming we are just not worrying about that yet. So I can  
>> use JSF 2 features (and knock out legacy Facelets), correct?
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> I don't see a need to support JSF 1.2
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>> 3. Should booking be an EAR or a WAR (or both)? I know I will need  
>> a Stateful session bean so with JBoss AS 5 that still requires use  
>> of an EAR I believe. I seem to have answered my own question. Just  
>> verify.
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> EAR.
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>>
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>> Also, please can we use consistent formatting of XML files in Seam  
>> 3? It appears this team likes 3 spaces. I'm willing to go with that  
>> (though I prefer tabs myself). Just be conscious of this because it  
>> really gets tedious when it's all different.
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> Yes, 3 spaces is good. Tabs are evil :-)

BTW take a look at http://seamframework.org/Community/GettingStartedDevelopingTheSeamFramework#H-StyleGuidelines 
  if you aren't sure, and update it if something is missing.
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>> So far, so good. Shane, let's keep chatting. I should be back on IM  
>> this week.
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>> -Dan
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