Re: WOLips plugin for Eclipse / usage patterns /

From: Ulrich Köster (ul..ac.com)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 03:37:31 EDT

  • Next message: Ulrich Köster: "Re: [WOLips docs] Re: WOLips plugin for Eclipse / usage patterns /"

    Hi ,

    There is a new Version of WOLips in the CVS. From now on incremental
    builds of frameworks are supported. This version still uses a build.xml
    file. But it`s hidden for the user. So its automatically invoked on
    save, rebuild and so on. On my Cube a incremental build in Eclipse takes
    about 2 seconds for a small framework and the time includes the build of
    the framework.

    I`ll add a page to the documentation on how to set up the classpath
    including the wo jars. A later version will assist you with that.

    Currently you have to run the WOApp by hand in Eclipse.
    Hot-code-replacement depends on your JVM. As far as I know Version 1.4
    and above works. I am using a normal JavaProject so this should work.
    But I never had a chance to test it.

    As far as I can see you have done the parts missing in WOLips in your
    plugin. What about merging them.

    Best regards

    Ulrich

    Am Donnerstag den, 15. August 2002, um 23:59, schrieb Harald Niesche:

    Hi,

    I'd like to know more about how the WOLips plugin is being used -- I have
    not really used it yet (because I didn't understand it :-( ).

    As far as I understand, you'll need to write a WOProject build.xml in
    order
    to use WOLips, right?

    Does that work well with incremental builds triggered by saving a file?

    How do you add the WebObjects frameworks to the classpath?

    Does the WOLips plugin support hot-code-replacement in a running
    WebObjects
    application?

    This is the motivation for my questions:

    I have written a tiny plugin to support development of WebObjects
    frameworks
    and applications with Eclipse that consists of an IClasspathContainer
    implementation (it let's you select all the frameworks you need) and an
    Eclipse builder that builds the .framework or .woa structure using the
    delta
    information provided by Eclipse (it doesn't create .jar files which
    seems to
    be saving a lot of time -- recompile / restart is really quite fast).

    I'd like to release the plugin to interested parties (on request) and
    would
    like to investigate how code / knowledge about the structure of
    WebObjects
    applications and frameworks could be shared between WOProject and an
    incremental Eclipse builder.

    Next steps for my Plugin would be
       - wizard for creation of projects
       - wizard / basic editing support for Components (.wo-Folders) --
    although
    I'm not sure whether we could expect trouble if we support WO
    development on
    platforms besides MacOSX and Windows
       - Java Runner (forgot the Eclipse name) that configures a JVM for
    running
    the WO application, currently I need to massage the classpath and current
    directory manually

    But maybe what I did is just redundant because WOLips already does all
    that
    ...

    (I only noticed WOProject / WOLips recently, when my plugin already
    worked
    quite well...)

    Harald



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0.0 : Fri Aug 16 2002 - 03:37:42 EDT