[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-3456) application.xml is missing in Seam project when debug on server option is selected for the web application

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBIDE-3456:
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WTP uses the application.xml to keep track of dependencies and for analyzing source to report errors, provide ui etc.

I'm not saying it is perfect, but if you want WTP to work and give it access to it the file needs to be consistently available. The build directory is not that place since that dir does not necessarily stay uptodate. Plus all application.xml editing facilities will be useless.

I would love if WTP had a "forgiven" mode where it could just be told to only read information from applicaiton.xml and just treat it as a readonly resource (alot of the ui would need to get disabled in that case) - but it hasn't. WTP is the blocking factor here (+ it is hard to get a build tool that just moves files around without knowing the structure to work well with an IDE where users expect it to understand the semantics of the files and the structure)

> application.xml is missing in Seam project when debug on server option is selected for the web application
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>                 Key: JBIDE-3456
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-3456
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: JBossAS
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0.cr1
>         Environment: Ganyede 3.4.1 JEE Version, JDK 6, JBoss Tools Nightly 20/12/2008, m2eclipse plugin 30/11/2008
>            Reporter: Dirk Pitt
>            Assignee: Snjezana Peco
>             Fix For: LATER
>
>         Attachments: burnout.zip, burnout2.zip, configuration.txt
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> My project is not generated from the seamgen or from JBoss Tools Seam Wizard. I created from Wesley Hayes maven archetype and installed necessary facets in eclipse configuration (Seam Facet and Seam Settings)..
> If I build it with maven and deploy it, everything works fine.
> But if I say in the web project in eclipse, debug on the server, I am getting the exception during deployment that application.xml is not there and it is not really there under \.metadata\.plugins\org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core\JBoss_AS_4.2.3_Server\deploy... 
> My project configuration seems to be valid one because I am getting all the content assist information for the seam and project runs correctly if it deployed externally to JBoss...
> May be JBoss Tools and m2eclipse plugin are colliding but it is very hard for me to tell that..
> I am attaching my sample project also so may be you can also reproduce it...
> May be one other tip, in maven ear plugin, I can configure the application.xml to be built in the runtime and would be copied to the target\EAR\META-INF directory during the build time (and application.xml there after the maven install). What I don't know does Seam/JBoss Tools look to the target directory to find the application.xml or it is trying to copy it from the source directories. If it tries to copy from sources directory
> ies, that is bad because as I said, this file is placed to the compile directory (target in my case / standart maven configuration). But in anycase I think it makes more sense to find this file from the compile/build directory...

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