Difference between revisions of "JEE Status Meetings/2009-07-23"

Revision as of 16:15, 22 July 2009

Attendees

Agenda

Proposed Scenarios 

• Select projects (add/remove)
• Select jars (or other resources) inside the workspace (add/remove)
• Select jars (or other resources) outside the workspace (add/remove)
• Editing the deployment path/archive name

Action Items

Content of the Module Dependency Page (Note that this is focused at EAR module assembly (but shouldn't be ;))

Structure of the Page

• screenshot
• One entry point (Module Dependencies page, ModuleAssemblyRootPage)
  • root page checks if the project has facets (if not, error composite is shown)
  • root page checks if the project can be converted to a virtual component (if not, error composite is shown)
  • root page checks for an extension point (moduleDependencyPropertyPage ) that accepts this project
    • If it finds one, that extension point can provide an array of controls
    • This works very similar to how J2EEPropertiesPage works, but expanded via extension point to more types
    • This is not the suggested use case, but it's provided in case a project type really wants to provide several controls / tabs
  • If it does not find an extension point for this project, it uses AddModuleDependenciesPropertiesPage
    • Project types can use the extension point and just subclass this page, overriding key methods if they want
    • In the screenshot above, the addButtons() has been overridden and the "Change Library Directory..." button has been added. (This is as an example. We can discuss whether it belongs there)
• AddModuleDependenciesPropertiesPage
  • Contains a two column viewer, and some buttons
    • viewer's right column shows the source of the entry / reference
    • viewer's left column shows the suggested deploy-path / archive-name for the reference
      • This can be edited by the user
      • This would be persisted in the component.xml via the archive-name attribute
      • This is currently buggy due to underlying EAR-oriented operations 280416 but using the standard CreateReferenceComponentsDataModelProvider works fine
    • viewer can currently only display IVirtualComponent objects
    • viewer would like to display wb-resource mappings but cannot 284060 - lacks API)
  • Buttons
    • Add Resource Mapping... (currently unimplemented due to API concerns of displaying mappings in viewer)
    • Add Reference...
      • "Add Reference..." opens a multi-page wizard dialog
      • This dialog is based on the wst.server's TaskModelDialog class
      • An extension point (referenceWizardFragment) is provided to create new arbitrary reference types
      • Currently there are four uses of this extension point
        • Projects
        • External jars
        • Workspace Jars
        • Variables
      • The code in these reference types has not been coppied from AddModulestoEARPropertiesPage

Classpath entries

• Leveraging the JDT UI (is it possible yet?)

Tangential Topics

• Single Root Structure bugs: 279360 282512 284187
  • Should single root structure change the result of members()?
  • Or should it just serve as a marker to report whether it is or is not in single root format?
• possible selection of basic vs. flexible
  • page's subclass could listen to proposed changes and change message if item is now 'complex'
• Allow virtual archive component's runtimePath member var to be used again 276825 - Any progress here?
• Allow extension point to turn handle uri's into IVirtualReferences instead of StructureEdit having only 3 types hard-coded 282269
• Clarifying javadoc for IVirtualComponent.getName() and IVirtualComponent.getDeployedName()
  • suggestion: Deprecate getName(), replace with getId()
  • clarify getDeployedName() should / should not include the extension
• Excessive complexity in JEE Tools' models and possible solutions 282830
  • Summary: More "references" should be stored in component.xml, not invented by *VirtualComponent or J?EEFlexProjDeployable 282515
  • Virtual Component and Deployable can both be super-thin wrappers, not lose functionality

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