[jbosstools-dev] BIRT and Seam facet (JBoss BIRT Integration)

[Snjezana Peco]

Hi,

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.
The problem is that BIRT's install delegate uses the old API 
(WebArtifactEdit) instead of the new model provider.
For more info see:  
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/wtp-dev/msg05306.html

Steps to reproduce:
Try to create a dynamic web project, choose module version 2.5 and add 
the BIRT and JSF 1.2 facet.
web.xml will contain only those artifacts created with the dynamic web 
and JSF facet.

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.

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 )
If the Seam facet is the last executed facet, Seam will overwrite 
artifacts added to the web.xml file by other facets (I get this issue 
when adding the new correct BIRT facet that doesn't depend on the Seam 
facet).
If some facet is executed after executing the Seam facet, it will 
overwrite Seam setting (I get this issue when adding the new BIRT facet 
that depends on the Seam facet).

You can test this by adding the Axis2 Web Service facet when creating a 
Seam project. AxisServlet, AxisAdminServlet and servlet mappings for 
these servlets won't be created
(the Seam facet overwrites Axis2 setting).
I propose to update web.xml using the WTP API (the model provider) in 
order to solve this issue.

Snjeza