[jbosstools-dev] Re: BIRT and Seam facet (JBoss BIRT Integration)
I have tried to create a project to integrate BIRT, JSF and Seam.
The JSF facet is created correctly, but BIRT and Seam have problems when
they are used with other facets.
1) BIRT
The BIRT facet works correctly with J2EE 1.4, but doesn't work with Java
EE 5.
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I have solved this issue by creating a new facet (JBoss BIRT
Reporting
Runtime Component facet).
We probably need to enter a bug against BIRT.
Definitly! Good example on why Ganymede is only half-baked ...unfortunately
it is more complete compared to Eclipse 3.3.
Report it ASAP since things are moving very fast with Ganymede now.
2) Seam
Seam doesn't use WTP API to handle web.xml, but copy web.xml created by
seam-gen.
It isn't compatble with any facet that updates web.xml (Seam's web.xml
includes the JSF servlet and mapping, but overwrites the setting added
by the dynamic web and JSF facet )
Yes, our current Seam facets needs to be redone. They were a "hack" to
circumvene that there is no place in WTP (that I know of) that allows you
to create a set of projects.
We should fix this in JBoss Tools 3. The seam facets should become *real* facets
and only do what it needed for each individual project/module type (and uses incremental
changes as much as possible instead of full overwrites) and to create
the "full triage" project we should introduce a focused Seam Project Wizard
that
creates the projects in the proper sequence.
-max