Re: [jboss-as7-dev] packaging of demos in AS7

Right now we are making demos/examples separate downloads.

If it works right now we could just add it to our download page right away.

Sent from my iPad On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Jonathan Halliday<jonathan.halliday(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi Max > > Thanks for the pointers, but I'm not sure how relevant some of your > points are. > > Perhaps I didn't make the situation sufficiently clear. I'm not setting > out to write a new quickstart for AS. I already have a demo app. It > already has version control, in the JBossTS repository. It already has > documentation, in the JBossTS manuals. It already has a build script. > > What I'm interested in is how to inject these pre-existing assets into > the AS build and hence release bundle, with the minimum of upstream > changes. If the only way to do that is to fork them into the AS codebase > then it just isn't going to happen. > > The tooling integration I consider largely orthogonal to that and I'm > happy to try to accomodate the needs of JBoss Tools if you can describe > them more fully. 'importable and deployable' is a bit vague for me. I > don't use JBoss Tools and have no clue what that requirement entails. > Are there some guidelines on what to do (or not do) and how to test it > in an automated fashion? > > Thanks > > Jonathan. > > On 07/26/2011 11:37 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: >> Look at https://github.com/jbossas/quickstart >> >> Has a read me with "rules" >> >> notice please the: >> "The quickstart should be importable into JBoss Tools and deployable there" :) >> >> And if that part does not work - ping me or on jboss tools forum and we'll help explain >> or see if we can make it work if some tooling limitation. >> >> That rule is what makes all the quick starts (except currently osgi) directly importable into >> JBoss tools and is what we will start relying on even more for next revision of JBoss Tools/JBDS >> which will provide a selected set of the quick starts as "project example"/New Project wizard >> to let users get started quickly. >> >> /max >> >> On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:11, Jonathan Halliday wrote: >> >>> >>> Is there any documentation describing how to package and include demo >>> source code and instructions in AS7? >>> >>> Now that XTS is (almost) integrated I'm looking at how we can ship the >>> demo app for it. IMO it should really be bundled with the AS rather than >>> a separate download, but the source for it will remain in the TS rather >>> than AS repo. >>> >>> So, I need some way of packaging the source and instructions into maven, >>> then having the AS build get them back out and unpack them into some >>> suitable place. Ideally the AS build should then build and run the demo >>> to ensure it works too. >>> >>> I'd also be interested to know if there are particular convestions in >>> place for how demos should build. Are they e.g. using relative paths to >>> reference libraries in the AS dir tree, or using maven? What is the >>> standard format for demo README files, instructions etc? plain text, html? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jonathan. >>> >>> -- >>> Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod >>> Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. >>> Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 >>> Directors: Michael Cunningham (USA), Mark Hegarty (Ireland), Matt Parson >>> (USA), Charlie Peters (USA) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> jboss-as7-dev mailing list >>> jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev >> >> /max >> http://about.me/maxandersen >> >> >> >> > > -- > Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod > Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. > Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 > Directors: Michael Cunningham (USA), Mark Hegarty (Ireland), Matt Parson > (USA), Charlie Peters (USA) > _______________________________________________ > jboss-as7-dev mailing list > jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev