Re: Frameworks, Incremental Builder, and how we should develop.

From: Ulrich Köster (ulric..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 12:27:32 EST

  • Next message: Ian McDougall: "RE: Frameworks, Incremental Builder, and how we should develop."

    Hi Ian,

    Am 03.12.2003 um 18:04 schrieb Ian McDougall:

    >> Create a WOApplication and WOFramework with WOLips 1.0.7.40. Open the
    >> 'Java Build Path' for the WOApplication and select the WOFramework in
    >> the 'Projects' tab. Add a WOComponent to the WOFramework with a
    >> "Hello"
    >> in the body. Create a WOHyperlink in the Main WOComponent to display
    >> the WOComponent from the WOFramework. Refresh both Projects. Launch
    >> the WOApplication within Eclipse. Everything should work as expected.
    >> Terminate the WOApplication. Switch to IncrementalBuilder and launch
    >> the WOApplication again........
    >
    > Yep... this works fine. However there are two big problems:
    >
    > - The framework component does not show up in the list of components
    > when
    > you insert a custom WO component [menu WebObjects -> Custom WebObjects]
    > - The classes from the framework do not show up in the list when you
    > attempt
    > to add a new key.
    >
    >
    > For these features to work in WOBuilder, the Framework needs to be
    > referenced in the Application's PB.project. I can make this work if I
    > make
    > the following changes to the Application's PB.project:
    >
    > - Add the test framework name to the FRAMEWORKS list.
    > - Add the path to the 'build' directory (e.g.
    > "C:\\java\\eclipse\\workspace\\TestFramework\\build") to the
    > FRAMEWORKSEARCH
    > list.
    >
    > Without this, WOBuilder is essentially useless with the incremental
    > builder.
    >
    > Any chance you could update WOLips to do this for us? For example,
    > add an
    > entry under the Java Build Path -> Libraries -> WO Frameworks list
    > would be
    > 'Workspace'. It would list all frameworks open in the workspace, and
    > if
    > selected, updates the PB.project by adding the framework name to the
    > FRAMEWORK list and adds the path containing the .framework directory
    > to the
    > FRAMEWORKSEARCH list ('build' if incremental build and project root if
    > ant)
    >
    > This would greatly help the 'out of the box' experience for existing WO
    > users. The less we need to know about PB.project the better!
    >
    > thanks.
    >
    >
    >

    Sounds good. Please add a feature request:
    http://objectstyle.org/jira/

    Ulrich

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