[infinispan-dev] [ISPN-134] Scanning MBean annotations for the jopr plugin

[Galder Zamarreno]

Hi,

Re: http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=161834

I've opened that forum post in the JBoss Build project to figure out the 
best way to scan Mbean annotations. This is related to 
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/ISPN-134

I can use any of the methods used by Vladimir so far in a 
straightforward way cos the requirement here is to execute something 
before the jopr plugin is jarred and it needs to have access to the 
dependency classpath.

A similar javadoc method as used for Config or JMX documentation could 
be used but these methods rely on the doclet being already built in some 
kind of artifact. I mentioned a possibility in the forum thread but 
another one would be for the jopr doclet that generates the XML to be in 
tools. However, tools depends on jopr, why is this so? Apparently this 
is due to TestNameVerifier but this has the list of modules hardcoded 
and opens File instances to them...

The other possibility would be to have a main class executed but how 
would I get hold of the classpath? This would also mean that jopr might, 
assuming this was doable, need to depend on all the projects where MBean 
annotations could live, cos the most likely way to do this would be via 
some kind of mvn dependency classpath access.

The best way IMO would be the jopr doclet method and this to live in 
tools project where I think it makes sense for it to live as we don't 
wanna ship it but only use it at build time. But for this to work, 
tools' dependencies need to be sorted out and tools stop depending on jopr.

Thoughts? I'll have a think overnight.
-- 
Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache