[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-2867) java2java transform generation not valid

[Tom Fennelly (JIRA)]

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Tom Fennelly commented on JBIDE-2867:
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This is most certainly a major issue, one way or another!!

If we're going to insist on the user adding connections for creating the beans configs (and I don't think we should be), then we should not allow make binding connections until after the relevant bean creation connections have been made.  At the moment, we're create invalid configs.

I find having to make the bean creation connections totally confusing.  They are telling the editor to do something completely different to that of making a binding connection.  The act of making these connections is interpreted differently by the editor, but surely the user will think they're basically the same thing:

1) A "bean creation connection" is telling the editor when a bean instance is to be created i.e. which source message event to use to create the bean instance.

2) The "binding connection" is telling the editor which source event to use to extract data from the message and use as the source data for the binding.
   
I think this will be totally confusing to users because from their perspective.  

I'm also still not convinced that the user needs to be burdened with the task of creating these bean creation connections (#1 above), as I outlined by email last week.  For me, this is the root of the issue.  We should automate #1 and then the confusion goes away.

> java2java transform generation not valid
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-2867
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-2867
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: smooks
>            Reporter: Tom Fennelly
>            Assignee: Xue Peng
>             Fix For: 3.0.0.cr1
>
>         Attachments: Dart.zip, errorconnections.png, screenshot-1.jpg, smooks-config.xml, XML.png
>
>
> I took the "java-to-java" example from the Smooks v1.0.1 distro and used the editor to generate the config for the same transformation.
> I will attach the eclipse project including the invlaid Smooks config.  I will also attached the config from the java-to-java example i.e. what the editor should produce.

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