[seam-dev] laying the tracks for Seam 3

Shane Bryzak shane.bryzak at jboss.com
Tue Apr 21 23:27:48 EDT 2009


Dan Allen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com 
> <mailto:pmuir at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 21 Apr 2009, at 17:05, Dan Allen wrote:
>
>         I'd like to start a new thread to discuss the Seam 3
>         foundation (since this is no longer about the Seam 2.1 branch).
>
>         So far, we have four main SVN divisions:
>
>         examples
>         modules
>         docs
>         sandbox
>
>         I raised the question whether we should divide up modules into
>         official, sandbox, and thirdparty. Shane said that likely we
>         don't need that fine-grained of a division.
>
>
>     I don't really like this at all - official is not very community
>     orientated.
>
>
> Okay, that's not really what I meant. I was thinking more along the 
> lines of production ready versus...well, a sandbox. But I think there 
> is a general consensus on a two-way split.
>
> modules
> modules-sandbox
>
> Speaking of which, if we followed the web beans convention, the folder 
> names would be:
>
> seam-modules
> seam-modules-sandbox
> seam-examples
> seam-examples-sandbox
>
> Should we add the seam- prefix? Or is it fine the way it is. I 
> actually don't care, just pointing out that I noticed the difference.

How about we just go with:

/examples
/modules
/sandbox
        /examples
        /modules

I don't think the seam prefix is necessary.

       
>  
>
>
>         The first example (booking) will be using JSF 2.0. I'm going
>         to express this as a dependency per example right now because
>         I'm thinking we still want Seam 3 to work with JSF 1.2 (or
>         should we?).
>
>
>     I personally think we should require JSF2, we aren't porting all
>     the stuff we added to the JSF2 spec over...
>
>
>         I'll also assume that the app server has JSF 2.0. We might
>         want a build somewhere that can install JSF 2 into JBoss AS
>         just like Web Beans has. Of course, we are waiting on a
>         deployer from my understanding.
>
>
>     You can do it today, just replace the libraries in
>     deploy/jbossweb.deploy/jsf-libs - writing an ant script to do this
>     is a good idea.
>
>
> I wrote a Maven script ;)
>
> modules/jsf-updater-tool
>
> I'll likely weave in the antrun plugin to get fancier, but it is 
> simple enough right now that it gets the job done.
>
> -Dan
>
> -- 
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