[seam-dev] Seam 2.1 branch

[Pete Muir]

On 21 Apr 2009, at 07:26, Dan Allen wrote:

>
>
> 6. The booking example needs to be ported to run on JSR-299 (very  
> high priority).
>
> I've begun the work on this, focusing initially on the build (I will  
> need lots of advice on how to best *implement* the functionality  
> using 299). Right now, I have three pom.xml files committed:
>
> modules/version-matrix/pom.xml
> examples/pom.xml
> examples/booking/pom.xml
>
> They depend on each other ascending the list. Pete, you mentioned  
> that the Seam version-matrix should use the WB version-matrix as the  
> parent.

Probably a good idea.

> I have not done that yet (since I don't need that many dependencies  
> yet given what I have so far). Shane, please feel free to hack this  
> file up as needed. I just had to have it in place to do anything w/  
> the examples.
>
> The good news is that the seam-booking.war can be built and deployed  
> to JBoss AS 5. It doesn't really do anything yet except show the  
> home page. Tomorrow I can dive in and start to get a screen or two  
> going.
>
> I would then like to research getting Maven to deploy the  
> examples...only falling back to Ant if I am just fighting with it  
> too much.

I've done this twice and it's a nightmare ;-)

>
>
> Couple of questions so far.
>
> 1. Can I use the standard src/main/webapp for the web assets? The  
> webbeans build uses WebContent which I guess is for JBDS. But I  
> think I can get JBDS to work with src/main/webapp just fine. I'm  
> also open to the folder named "view". I really dislike the folder  
> name WebContent.

I think we should go with the WTP standard here.

>
> 2. We are setting JSF to version 2.0.0.PR2, right? I guess later if  
> we need to we can think about how to enable JSF 1.2 in the build,  
> but I'm assuming we are just not worrying about that yet. So I can  
> use JSF 2 features (and knock out legacy Facelets), correct?

I don't see a need to support JSF 1.2

>
> 3. Should booking be an EAR or a WAR (or both)? I know I will need a  
> Stateful session bean so with JBoss AS 5 that still requires use of  
> an EAR I believe. I seem to have answered my own question. Just  
> verify.

EAR.

>
>
> Also, please can we use consistent formatting of XML files in Seam  
> 3? It appears this team likes 3 spaces. I'm willing to go with that  
> (though I prefer tabs myself). Just be conscious of this because it  
> really gets tedious when it's all different.

Yes, 3 spaces is good. Tabs are evil :-)

>
>
> So far, so good. Shane, let's keep chatting. I should be back on IM  
> this week.
>
> -Dan
>
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