[jbosstools-dev] Re: [Soa-tools-list] Some thoughts and questions about the esp project wizard

[Denny Xu]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> I don't recall binary results being available in the projects...this is only there when deploying, correct?
>   
yes
>> *4. Integrate with current ESB editor
>>    *For now, Jboss tools has a editor for jboss-esb.xml, we also can associate the file with the editor
>>     
>
> Not sure what this means ?
>   
you know, JBoss tools has a ESB tree editor, I mean that when the 
project is created and the user want to edit the jboss-esb.xml config 
file, we can
open the file using the ESB editor .
>   
>> *5. Sample content(Template):*
>>    Provide a extension point for it. the extension has the following
>> properties at least :
>>
>>      * esb version:  the templates will be filtered by the version of the esb facet of the project.
>>
>>      * description : when user select a template, on the wizard page, show
>>        the description to the user.
>>
>>      * template: the template should be the main stuff of this extension
>>        point, we should determine the format of the template, since it may contain some source
>>        code and other artifacts such as some ESB config files, so the template may be  an archive file such as a jar
>>        file or some other sort of it.
>>      * template install class: to handle some additional operations that template providers want.
>>     
>
> All sounds good - but I'm interested in getting the above issues done first so we get something usable for deployment upfront.
>   
John suggested to quickly develop a prototype of the wizard at  first, I 
think it may be worked out next week and then start to code base on it.

Denny