[jbosstools-dev] What is expected of JBoss Seam 2.3 for JBoss Tools

[Daniel Hinojosa]

Great to know.. Thanks, Alexey

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Alexey Kazakov <akazakov at exadel.com> wrote:

>  See my comments below.
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> On 05/02/2012 11:24 AM, Daniel Hinojosa wrote:
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> *  Latest JBT is used with Eclipse 3.7.2 Indigo
> *  Seam 2.3 uses maven, therefore all dependencies are done through maven
> *  JBT WILL NOT be using Maven
>
> I would say JBoss Tools Seam Wizards (New Project, Action, Form, etc.) are
> not going to use Maven. But JBT has some maven features (seam support
> enabled automatically if you import a maven project with seam dependencies,
> mavenized seam project examples, etc.)
>
> *  JBT only needs the initial seam distribution (zip file with lib) to
> have everything it needs to create a seam web project.
> *  Once JBT has the initial distribution and libraries it can then use
> that to create a seam web project.
> *  If the end user wishes to use JBT, they have to download the
> distribution, map it to SEAM_HOME.
>
> JBT does not use SEAM_HOME at all. We use our internal settings for
> eclipse projects to map it to the seam distribution.
>
>  *  If the end user doesn't wish to use JBT, they can just add
> dependencies to their maven pom files, and do what they want.
>
> Again, JBT can help here too, but if we are talking about Seam Wizards
> then this is correct.
>
>  *  If the end user wants to use JBT AND Maven, that will not be
> supported currently (Need Verification)
>
> Not supported by Seam Wizards. Since they are seam-gen based. All the
> problems we have right now are related to our Seam Wizards. Our seam maven
> integration works fine afaik. Just to be clear.
>
>  *  JBT will expect that the end distribution of Seam will have a lib
> folder with required jars, a list of jars, and a seam.sh and seam.bat to
> run seam-gen
>
> JBT does not use seam.sh, seam.bat or any scripts directly. We used them
> only during development to mimic its logic. But we still need the lib
> folder, the list of jars and templates (xhtmls, xmls, etc) and hope the
> scripts won't change much so we won't have to rewrite our wizards
> completely.
>
>  *  Seam 2.3 has a distribution module that creates the final
> distribution and uses the assembly plugin to achieve what JBT needs, this
> is the focus currently:
>
> https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/branches/community/Seam_2_3/distribution/
> *  JBT will still require seam.bat or seam.sh scripts so it can create
> entities and actions and that is already part of the current distribution
>
>
> https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/branches/community/Seam_2_3/distribution/src/main/assembly/
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>
> Again, JBT doesn't use seam scripts. See the previous comment.
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>  If this is not correct, please correct since if there is something
> wrong, it's because of a lack of understanding on my part.
>
>  Hope this is beneficial.
>
>  Danno
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