[seam-dev] [jbosstools-dev] What is expected of JBoss Seam 2.3 for JBoss Tools

[Marek Novotny]

Dan,

  Alexey commented your points/questions fairly well, so I hope you have 
clear understanding now ;-)

Just short summary:
1. Distribution assembly is Seam 2 support for ant users and seam-gen. 
(Maven users don't care much about distribution files)

2. Seam-gen is command line tool and JBoss Tools wizards mimic only 
invocations of these seam-gen command and collects inputs from user to 
create Seam projects/components/actions/forms etc.

3. JBoss Tools relies on seam-gen file templates, therefore what we will 
update and works in pure seam-gen, it should be used in JBoss Tools 
without issues and just works.


On 2.5.2012 20:49, Alexey Kazakov wrote:
> See my comments below.
>
> On 05/02/2012 11:24 AM, Daniel Hinojosa wrote:
>> * Latest JBT is used with Eclipse 3.7.2 Indigo
>> * Seam 2.3 uses maven, therefore all dependencies are done through maven
>> * JBT WILL NOT be using Maven
> I would say JBoss Tools Seam Wizards (New Project, Action, Form, etc.)
> are not going to use Maven. But JBT has some maven features (seam
> support enabled automatically if you import a maven project with seam
> dependencies, mavenized seam project examples, etc.)
>> * JBT only needs the initial seam distribution (zip file with lib) to
>> have everything it needs to create a seam web project.
>> * Once JBT has the initial distribution and libraries it can then use
>> that to create a seam web project.
>> * If the end user wishes to use JBT, they have to download the
>> distribution, map it to SEAM_HOME.
> JBT does not use SEAM_HOME at all. We use our internal settings for
> eclipse projects to map it to the seam distribution.
>> * If the end user doesn't wish to use JBT, they can just add
>> dependencies to their maven pom files, and do what they want.
> Again, JBT can help here too, but if we are talking about Seam Wizards
> then this is correct.
>> * If the end user wants to use JBT AND Maven, that will not be
>> supported currently (Need Verification)
> Not supported by Seam Wizards. Since they are seam-gen based. All the
> problems we have right now are related to our Seam Wizards. Our seam
> maven integration works fine afaik. Just to be clear.
>> * JBT will expect that the end distribution of Seam will have a lib
>> folder with required jars, a list of jars, and a seam.sh and seam.bat
>> to run seam-gen
> JBT does not use seam.sh, seam.bat or any scripts directly. We used them
> only during development to mimic its logic. But we still need the lib
> folder, the list of jars and templates (xhtmls, xmls, etc) and hope the
> scripts won't change much so we won't have to rewrite our wizards
> completely.
>> * Seam 2.3 has a distribution module that creates the final
>> distribution and uses the assembly plugin to achieve what JBT needs,
>> this is the focus currently:
>> https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/branches/community/Seam_2_3/distribution/
>> * JBT will still require seam.bat or seam.sh scripts so it can create
>> entities and actions and that is already part of the current distribution
>> https://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/branches/community/Seam_2_3/distribution/src/main/assembly/
>>
> Again, JBT doesn't use seam scripts. See the previous comment.
>>
>>
>> If this is not correct, please correct since if there is something
>> wrong, it's because of a lack of understanding on my part.
>>
>> Hope this is beneficial.
>>
>> Danno
>>
>>
>>
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