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

[Denny Xu]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>> *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 .
>>     
>
> ...but that is already done by default, so no work needed ;)
>
>   
>>>> *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.
>>     
>
> ok, so you will be using the WTP wizard framework and module types?
>   
yes,  if I define a new module type, the module type need to be supported by a server runtime,   so maybe need some discussion with Rob to add support

in JBoss server runtime.

Denny