OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

[Tim McConnell <ti...@gmail.com>]

Hi, I work on the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin, and just discovered the OpenEJB 
Eclipse Plugin. I really like what I've seen thus far and have a couple questions:

-- What are the long-term plans for the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin as far as adding 
new functions capabilities ??
-- Do you envision a different set of users for the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin then 
the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin ??
-- What can I do to help ??

-- 
Thanks,
Tim McConnell

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

[Jonathan Gallimore <jo...@gmail.com>]

I've attached OPENEJB-674-22.diff to the Jira issue which should fix the 
issue below.

Cheers

Jon


Jonathan Gallimore wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying to this, I managed to get a last 
> minute holiday after submitting this last patch. I've had a quick 
> check, and it looks like I missed a couple of XML files from the last 
> patch, so I've attached them as to the Jira issue as OPENEJB-674-21.diff.
>
> I've also found a bug which has crept into the generate annotations 
> code, which makes the wizard fail because the CmpJpaConversion class 
> is unable to load the target EJB class from the Eclipse project. I'll 
> work on this issue today, and hopefully get another patch together 
> later on.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
>> Completed at revision: 667607
>>
>> Please double check whether I did applied everything correct!
>>
>

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

[Jonathan Gallimore <jo...@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,

Sorry for the delay in replying to this, I managed to get a last minute 
holiday after submitting this last patch. I've had a quick check, and it 
looks like I missed a couple of XML files from the last patch, so I've 
attached them as to the Jira issue as OPENEJB-674-21.diff.

I've also found a bug which has crept into the generate annotations 
code, which makes the wizard fail because the CmpJpaConversion class is 
unable to load the target EJB class from the Eclipse project. I'll work 
on this issue today, and hopefully get another patch together later on.

Cheers

Jon



Daniel S. Haischt wrote:
> Completed at revision: 667607
>
> Please double check whether I did applied everything correct!
>

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

["Daniel S. Haischt" <da...@googlemail.com>]

Completed at revision: 667607

Please double check whether I did applied everything correct!

Jonathan Gallimore wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Daniel S. Haischt <
> daniel.haischt@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From a feature point of view I was emphasizing that we should also try
>> to add a  focus on I18N like it is supported by Eclipse and context
>> sensitive help.
>>
>> I18N allows us to provide an internationalized version of the plugin.
>>
>> Regarding context sensitive help we created the appropriate plugin
>> infrastructure already. Jon started to write help contents using
>> the OpenEJB wiki. Our thought was to merge the Wiki contents into
>> the help plugin  as soon as we got enough content.
>>
>>
> I've just added a patch openejb-674-20.diff and openejb-674-20-newfiles.zip
> which adds the same content I added to the wiki to the help plugin, along
> with the context info so pressing F1 on our panels now shows the relevant
> stuff. I haven't looked at the I18N stuff yet, but I will go back and
> re-read the details you sent about to make sure I've updated everything I
> should (and I may even try translating some stuff into German too ;-))
> 
> The patch also updates the code to work with the new sxc-jaxb parser.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jon
> 

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

[Jonathan Gallimore <jo...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Daniel S. Haischt <
daniel.haischt@googlemail.com> wrote:

> From a feature point of view I was emphasizing that we should also try
> to add a  focus on I18N like it is supported by Eclipse and context
> sensitive help.
>
> I18N allows us to provide an internationalized version of the plugin.
>
> Regarding context sensitive help we created the appropriate plugin
> infrastructure already. Jon started to write help contents using
> the OpenEJB wiki. Our thought was to merge the Wiki contents into
> the help plugin  as soon as we got enough content.
>
>
I've just added a patch openejb-674-20.diff and openejb-674-20-newfiles.zip
which adds the same content I added to the wiki to the help plugin, along
with the context info so pressing F1 on our panels now shows the relevant
stuff. I haven't looked at the I18N stuff yet, but I will go back and
re-read the details you sent about to make sure I've updated everything I
should (and I may even try translating some stuff into German too ;-))

The patch also updates the code to work with the new sxc-jaxb parser.

Cheers

Jon

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

["Daniel S. Haischt" <da...@googlemail.com>]

Hi Tim,

sorry for being kind of late, I didn't read my Gmail during the last two
days or so. Shame on me :)


Tim McConnell wrote:
> -- What are the long-term plans for the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin as far as 
> adding new functions capabilities ??

The long-term plans are to stabilize the plugin and to get it out of the
sandbox module within the OpenEJB SVN repo as mentioned by Jon already.

As a result we should really provide a binary download plus an update
site  for the plugin.

 From a feature point of view I was emphasizing that we should also try
to add a  focus on I18N like it is supported by Eclipse and context
sensitive help.

I18N allows us to provide an internationalized version of the plugin.

Regarding context sensitive help we created the appropriate plugin
infrastructure already. Jon started to write help contents using
the OpenEJB wiki. Our thought was to merge the Wiki contents into
the help plugin  as soon as we got enough content.

A final feature which comes to mind is an universal plugin foundation
layer that abstracts the functional logic of the current OpenEJB
plugin into a re-usable layer that should be IDE agnostic. I.e.
this particular layer should not know anything about Eclipse, IntelliJ
or Netbeans.

Having such an abstraction layer would then allow to provide actual
IDE plugins on top of it for examplefor Eclipse, IDEA IntelliJ or
Netbeans.

> -- Do you envision a different set of users for the OpenEJB Eclipse 
> Plugin then the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin ??

> -- What can I do to help ??
> 

If you are interested in getting help/context sensitive added to the
Geronimo plugin I probably could provide a patch. Same for I18N.

Would it be possible to provide a unified update site which provides
the possibility to install either the Geronimo related feature (I guess
you are using a feature) and/or the OpenEJB feature. That way users
may become aware that both plugins do exist and they then may decide
whether to just use one of them or both.

Regards
Daniel S. Haischt

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

[Karan Malhi <ka...@gmail.com>]

I really like the idea of making an editor for openejb xml. This will really
add value to the plugin.

A weird idea, but something like "drag and drop injection" -- drag a class
and drop it on the ejb class and it will add the annotation automatically.
Don't ask me for details, because even I am not sure about this, the thought
just came to me while writing the email, so I thought, might as well dump it
in this email itself and see if this leads to something ;)


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jonathan Gallimore <
jonathan.gallimore@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Tim McConnell <ti...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I work on the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin, and just discovered the
> OpenEJB
> > Eclipse Plugin. I really like what I've seen thus far and have a couple
> > questions:
> >
>
> > -- What are the long-term plans for the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin as far as
> > adding new functions capabilities ??
>
>
> In terms of new features, I'm not sure what we're planning. So far we have
> the EJB3 annotation generation, and the ability to run OpenEJB standalone
> as
> a WST server. I have a few more ideas of my own (which I haven't mentioned
> before, I guess now is as good a time as any to suggest them) - things like
> perhaps extending the JUnit support with templates for EJB tests, perhaps
> incorporating some of the trickier test situations that are asked about on
> the mailing lists. I also thought about a graphical view for editing
> openejb-jar.xml. I guess others on the mailing list have their own ideas
> too
> :)
>
>
> >
> > -- Do you envision a different set of users for the OpenEJB Eclipse
> Plugin
> > then the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin ??
>
>
> I must admit I haven't thought about it much - the plugin really started
> life as with Karan's implementation of the WST server and David's idea of
> parsing ejb-jar.xml and openejb-jar.xml to generate annotations[
>
> http://www.nabble.com/ejb-jar.xml-to-Annotations-tool-td12318028.html#a12318028
> ].
> Eclipse seemed a good platform to do the latter, with its nice APIs to
> modify the projects source code. I guess some people may only use one
> plugin
> or the other as they stand at the moment, but I could certainly imagine
> users would use both.
>
>
> >
> > -- What can I do to help ??
> >
>
> From my point of view I'd really like to get the plugin to a point where we
> can really start encouraging users to download it and use, and ultimately
> get it promoted from the sandbox area of subversion where it currently
> resides - I don't think its quite there yet, but (and I hope others agree)
> that its not too far off :) Any help you can give with that would be most
> welcome, as would any other thoughts and ideas you have.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jon
>



-- 
Karan Singh Malhi

Re: OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin

[Jonathan Gallimore <jo...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Tim McConnell <ti...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, I work on the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin, and just discovered the OpenEJB
> Eclipse Plugin. I really like what I've seen thus far and have a couple
> questions:
>

> -- What are the long-term plans for the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin as far as
> adding new functions capabilities ??


In terms of new features, I'm not sure what we're planning. So far we have
the EJB3 annotation generation, and the ability to run OpenEJB standalone as
a WST server. I have a few more ideas of my own (which I haven't mentioned
before, I guess now is as good a time as any to suggest them) - things like
perhaps extending the JUnit support with templates for EJB tests, perhaps
incorporating some of the trickier test situations that are asked about on
the mailing lists. I also thought about a graphical view for editing
openejb-jar.xml. I guess others on the mailing list have their own ideas too
:)


>
> -- Do you envision a different set of users for the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin
> then the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin ??


I must admit I haven't thought about it much - the plugin really started
life as with Karan's implementation of the WST server and David's idea of
parsing ejb-jar.xml and openejb-jar.xml to generate annotations[
http://www.nabble.com/ejb-jar.xml-to-Annotations-tool-td12318028.html#a12318028].
Eclipse seemed a good platform to do the latter, with its nice APIs to
modify the projects source code. I guess some people may only use one plugin
or the other as they stand at the moment, but I could certainly imagine
users would use both.


>
> -- What can I do to help ??
>

>From my point of view I'd really like to get the plugin to a point where we
can really start encouraging users to download it and use, and ultimately
get it promoted from the sandbox area of subversion where it currently
resides - I don't think its quite there yet, but (and I hope others agree)
that its not too far off :) Any help you can give with that would be most
welcome, as would any other thoughts and ideas you have.

Cheers

Jon