[seam-dev] Need advice on what and how to commit new build stuff for the booking sample app on WebSphere v7

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

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>     anyway, having such a environment switcher is "more or less" what
>     the maven profile support does (except the destionation is always
>     in the build result, anyone know if that can be changed/customzied?).
>     What would be nice is to (for those locations where it is
>     possible) to do the "inverse operation" by simply comparing the
>     src and destination and just do an intelligent merge ;)
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>>     Am I missing some obvious way to work? Put Maven completely aside
>>     for a moment and just focus on how to deal with different
>>     settings for different environment in any Java EE project. How is
>>     the problem solved? That is where we need to start when we
>>     discuss a solution.
>     The problem is unfortunately normally solved with what I normally
>     refer to as Ant voodoo ;)
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>     but yes, this is something better done face-2-face since its
>     solution very much depend on what kind of 'property replacement'
>     and what type of file you do it on.
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> Great, I'll star this e-mail and we can use it as an agenda for a 
> conversation at JBoss World.
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> I do have a rough idea of how to solve this. Obviously, and IDE has to 
> work with a concrete file. That's a fixture for the time being. What I 
> think we can do in JBoss Tools is offer an environment manager.
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> The environment manager is aware of source files with replacement 
> properties and the cooresponding real file locations (such as 
> META-INF/persistence.xml or WEB-INF/web.xml). When you select your 
> profile, JBoss Tools runs the property replacements (perhaps using 
> Maven 2) and sets the resolved files into their expected location (in 
> the source tree).
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> When you make a change to a source file hooked into this manager, 
> JBoss Tools should be able to keep track that you have made a change 
> and offer to update the source file accordingly (or the Maven 2 
> properties definition for that environment).
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> It may sound a little complicated, but this would be a great feature. 
> There is no voodoo magic.
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your idea is what i'm kinda hoping to do via m2eclipse's profile 
resource replacement...but I haven't looked into if it is flexible 
enough yet....doesn't solve it for non-maven projects either so some 
middleroad needs to be done ;)

/max
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