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

[Pete Muir]

Hi Denis,

Great work :-)

On 27 Jul 2009, at 09:15, Marek Novotny wrote:

>
> denis.forveille at gmail.com píše v Ne 26. 07. 2009 v 22:12 -0400:
>> (This is the third try to post this messsage as it seems that the  
>> previous messages didn't go through...)
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In order to help people use Seam on WebSphere, I have currently  
>> ready to
>> be committed, the artifacts to build a functional "booking"  
>> application
>> under WebSphere v7

I think the correct place to put this work is for the jee5/booking  
example, not the plain booking example. The jee5 example is a port of  
the booking example to any jee5 server. You'll also find we have WLS,  
OC4J etc, GFv2 support there.

>> The artifacts are grouped under a "websphere7-resources" directory  
>> that
>> groups the files tailored for WebSphere  v7 and there is a
>> "build-websphere7.xml" file  to build the ear file.
>
> thanks for that, regarding file and directory names, it should be the
> same as we have in jpa example -> directory resources-websphere7.  
> build
> file name is fine.

The correct approach with the jee5/booking example is not to have  
extra resource directories or build scripts, but to add in any changes  
needed as comments, and describe the process in the readme. The aim of  
this is to show how to make an app work on each app server, for people  
to follow with their own application.

>>
>> With this, this it is just a matter of running the build file,  
>> declaring
>> a connection pool in WebSphere and deploying the ear file on  
>> WebSphere
>> to get the "booking" application running on WebSphere v7
>>
>> I plan also to review the section of the doc related to the usage of
>> seam on WebSphere v7 as what is in there is over-complicated and  
>> there
>> are may errors (and many jar are out opf date with seam 2.2 ...), and
>> also to include a section on how to configuire JNDI name resolution  
>> for
>> Seam with WebSphere v7 as it seems that many people have problems  
>> with this
> Agree, one notice, the refdoc for WAS was last updated for version
> 2.1.2.CR1.
>>
>> Q:
>> - is the "booking" sample the right example to proposes this kind  
>> of thing?
> Originally booking example in jee5 directory was for interoperability
> with Glassfish, WAS, Weblogic AS etc. Seam is now deployed into  
> JBoss AS
> 5, which is JEE5 certified, so there is a question if it is still
> required to have both jee5/booking and booking examples in  
> distribution.
>
> Pete and Dan, what do you think?

Yes, let's stick with this for Seam 2.2.

>
>> - should it be better if I move my files from the "booking" sample to
>> the "je55/booking" sampleand make this work there? what is the
>> difference between both?

Yes, as above, use jee5/booking. The booking example is designed to  
run ootb with no changes on JBoss 5 and Tomcat 6 / embedded - lets  
keep the example simple, for people getting started.

>> - is the structured proposed ok? ie the websphere7-resources  
>> directory
>> that contains the files specific to was and the build-webssphere7.xml
>> (very similar to what is done done in the "jpa" sample app)
> As I wrote above, please synchronize the structure with jpa example.

No, use the pattern i describe above for jee5 :-)

>>
>> I could commit this as soon as v2.2GA is out..
>>
>> Thanks
>> Denis
>>
>>
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