Re: [jbosstools-dev] Maven Publishing Goals on Server Edit

Howdy ;) If you see an "Ant Publishing" section, it means you are not creating a JBoss Tools server, but you *are* making a webtools server. The JBossTools servers do not have "Ant Publishing" listed in our server editor =] When trying to create a new server, you'll see three sections: 1) JBoss 2) JBoss Community 3) JBoss Enterprise Middleware Only Server types 2) and 3) are made by us. Server type one is automatically provided by webtools. Currently we only do direct file-system coppies for the most part. We don't support ant publishing (way too slow, launches separate vm, etc) or remote deployment just yet. I've been trying to think of a way to allow such things but haven't come to a conclusion yet on the best way to architect it. Currently several different module types have their own "publisher" which still only does a local file publish. I've been struggling to imagine a UI that can allow the user to customize each available module's publisher and details. My current idea was just to allow each module override our default behaviour. In case you're not familiar, our default behaviour is to publish to one of three places: in the server's deploy folder, in the jbosstools plugin metadata location, or in a custom folder somewhere else on the hard drive. So this would allow the user to designate where each module would go. Since there are only two variables in this example (type, and location), it could easily be represented in a 3-column grid. But once you start talking about different TYPES of deployers (ssh, maven, ant) it starts opening up an array of different-sized requirements. An ant publisher would require a file, a target, a base directory, etc. A maven publisher would require, I don't even know what. An SSH publisher would require server, port, username, password, root folder to publish to, etc. I see no easy way to represent these in a server editor section. However I can add a server editor PAGE (the server editor is a multi-page editor). But I've still been having problems drafting a UI for it. Daniel Green wrote: > Hello! > > It would be cool if the user, on the server edit page, could specify > maven goals to be used for generating the ear or war file to be > published. Right under the "Ant Publisher Properties" there's some > room... Is this a feasible goal? I'd be willing to put time into > developing it. As of now, deploying has been a gigantic pain when > using maven. I've found myself fighting with eclipse for days now... > Obviously not all projects would be maven enabled, so perhaps > checking > for m2eclipse nature or a pom.xm before building that way. The latter > may be best. How feasible is this? > > Thank you for hearing my idea, > Daniel. > _______________________________________________ > jbosstools-dev mailing list > jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev > _______________________________________________ jbosstools-dev mailing list jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev