Re: Struts Tools

[David Morris <Da...@plumcreek.com>]

Ted,

I was able to automate this using Ant and the 
fixcrlf task. By adding a pretty simple target to 
most builds, it is easy to generate a source version 
of most Jakarta builds. Here is a sample from the 
beanutils build:

  <target name="dist.add.source">
     <copy todir="${build.home}/classes">
        <fileset dir="${source.home}" includes="**/*.java"/>
     </copy>
     <fixcrlf srcdir="${build.home}/classes" includes="**/*.java"/>
  </target>

Running this target before the jar target (which is 
pretty easy to do in Eclipse from the CVS builds)
will add java source files to the distribution jar. 
It would be nice to have platform specific builds 
with source available, but if that is too much 
bother, I would be happy to submit patches to the 
various build.xml files along with Eclipse specific  
build instructions.

David Morris

>>> husted@apache.org 12/24/02 06:35 AM >>>
If the instructions on amending the build process were available, 
they might also be submitted to Gump, which builds a ton of JARs 
every day.

http://gump.covalent.net/jars/latest/

The driving force behind Gump is Sam Ruby, who I've copied into 
this reply. 

If for some reason the process cannot be automated at this time, 
perhaps you should setup a SourceForge project where these JARs 
can be pooled and shared. 

-Ted.


12/23/2002 2:18:52 PM, David Morris <Da...@plumcreek.com> 
wrote:

>I came upon this message while looking for Eclipse 
>IDE information. To make Struts easier to use in Eclipse, I 
>import the jar version followed by the java source and re-export 
>them into a bin/source jar. This corrects line feed issues and 
>makes it easy to step from my code to struts code in the 
>debugger. I do this for Struts and Tomcat as well as some of 
>the commons components. It takes about 20 minutes or so 
>for each jar file but makes it easy to find problems related 
>to things like naming errors. I end up doing this for every 
>new major release of Struts or Tomcat.
>
>It would be nice if there was a repository of pre-build jars 
>that a person could download with source included. I don't 
>know how easy it would be to build these as part of your 
>build process because of the line feed issues but I know that 
>other Windows eclipse uses who I have shared these jar files 
>seemed to appreciate the effort.
>
>David Morris



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