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

[Marek Novotny]

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Denis Forveille napsal(a):
> 2009/7/27 Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com>
> 
>> On 27 Jul 2009, at 17:57, Denis Forveille wrote:
>>
>>  (eg. the build process included specific JBoss libs,
>>> Like?
>>>
>>> jboss-common-core.jar  and concurrent.jar
>>>
>> IIRC these are Hibernate dependencies...
>>
>>  Well, I would suggest including instructions for getting it working with
>>> minimal changes in the readme. You can add a comment to the specifc file
>>> like <!-- Not required in WAS 7 -->, and write in the ref guide that you
>>> don't need these (but they don't hurt) etc.
>>>
>>> But as this sample is likely the application people start with, IMHO it
>>> would be better to have an application that shows the "best way to run  Seam
>>> on your AS".
>>> eg, in the doc I will describe three ways to configure the application to
>>> let Seam smoothy find the beans in the JNDI WAS namespace. If I give
>>> instructions to modify the sample app "with minimal changes" (see your
>>> comment below) to run on WAS, it will use the worse way (IMO) to do it (ie
>>> maintain the ejb3 ref in the config files) and people will build their apps
>>> on this without any real sample app that will use the best approach.
>>> If you are OK with it, for WAS, I will give instructions to build the
>>> booking application and get the "best way to run Seam on WAS v7", this will
>>> include a few extra steps (like remove the ejb-ref etc..)
>>>
>> I would suggest describing both the minimal and recommended.
>>
>> In other words "If you are getting started with WAS you can do XYZ" "Now
>> that you've got the app up and running, you may be wondering if you can
>> simplify the configuration. You can by doing PQRST (remove ejb-refs etc.)"
>>
>> So, we get people up and running with minimum deviation from the EE spec -
>> the most portable app. Then we show how to tweak for WAS.
>>
> 
> Understood and agreed.
> 
> I've created a JIRA and will start to work on it.
> 
> I'll ask you (or someone else) to review at least the doc when I'll commit
> it in v2.2.1 ('cause of my english..) 
when you finish let us know and we will take care about the review.
and i may even ask you to add my name
> to the "authors"...lol
> 
you can do it yourself in your commit, add your name in
doc/Seam_Reference_Guide/en-US/Author_Group.xml ;-)

Cheers,

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Marek Novotny
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