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

[Jason Greene]

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.

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On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Jonathan Halliday <jonathan.halliday at 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.
>>> 
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>> /max
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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