[jbosstools-dev] Re: Mavenizing Seam EAR project

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Excellent - I'll take a look ASAP.

One thing I don't get is why booking-ds.xml needs to be deployed 
independently; we don't do that for the "normal" WTP projects ?

/max
> I have created mavenized Seam Booking example. The project is based on 
> the project created by Fred Bricon 
> (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-688). It is compatible 
> with JBoss Tools and includes
> content assist, Seam validator, etc. All libraries are mavenized 
> (booking/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib is empty; there isn't any library in 
> booking-ear; sources are available if they exist in Maven 
> repositories...).
> The size of the mavenized EAR booking archive is about 200K, the size 
> of non-mavenized EAR booking archive is about 8MB.

>
> In order to test the project, you need to do the following:
>
> - call Help>Project Examples>Seam>Seam Booking example - EAR mavenized
> You will get booking, booking-ejb, booking-ear and booking-parent 
> projects
> - add some JBoss Server, JBoss Seam Runtime and database connection 
> profile
> - make resources/booking-ds.xml deployable
> - wait until "Maven indexer" and "Maven update dependencies" are finished
>  If you deploy the project before maven updates its classpath, it 
> could happen some libraries not to be deployed 
> (booking.war/WEB-INF/lib, for instance). If this happens, you need to 
> close the booking project and open it again (or restart Eclipse).
> - deploy booking-ear
> - start the server
>
> I have used Eclipse 3.4.1, WTP 3.0.3, JBoss Tools 3.0.0 nigthly, 
> m2eclipse 0.9.7.200811301806, Seam 2.0.2 SP1, JBoss AS 4.2.3
> It is much easier to mavenize a Seam WAR project.
>
> Snjeza