Re: Building project from the command line

From: Ulrich Köster (ulric..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 07:15:14 EDT

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    Am 14.04.2004 um 10:25 schrieb Charles-Edouard Ruault:

    > Hi Ulrich,
    > thanks for your answer
    >
    > On Apr 13, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Ulrich Köster wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Charles,
    >>
    >>
    >> Am 09.04.2004 um 09:59 schrieb Charles-Edouard Ruault:
    >>
    >>> Hi all,
    >>>
    >>> i'm using eclipse/Wolips to develop WebObject apps and frameworks ,
    >>> everything is ok ( aside a few glitches here and there ... ).
    >>
    >> Please report them:
    >> http://objectstyle.org/jira/
    > will do !
    >>
    >>> Now i would like to build scripts to automate the build of our
    >>> application ( consisting of a few Frameworks and Apps ).
    >>> In order to minimize the work i would like to reuse the build.xml
    >>> scripts produced by WOLips. Unfortunately they don't include the
    >>> taskdefs and wocompile blocks needed to build from the command line.
    >>
    >> http://objectstyle.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=WOL-40
    > Looks like things are going in the right direction here.

    To assure that a future release includes the ability to build from the
    command line you should add your comment to jira.

    >
    >>
    >>>
    >>> For example, to be able to build one Framework from the command line
    >>> i had to add :
    >>> <taskdef name="woframework"
    >>> classname="org.objectstyle.woproject.ant.WOFramework"></taskdef>
    >>> <taskdef name="wocompile"
    >>> classname="org.objectstyle.woproject.ant.WOCompile"></taskdef>
    >>> and then within the <target name="build.woframework"> tag :
    >>> <wocompile srcdir="." destdir="${classes.dir}">
    >>> <frameworks root="${wo.root}/Library/Frameworks">
    >>> <include name="JavaWebObjects.framework"/>
    >>> <include name="JavaFoundation.framework"/>
    >>> <include name="JavaXML.framework"/>
    >>> <include name="JavaWOExtensions.framework"/>
    >>> <include name="JavaEOAccess.framework"/>
    >>> <include name="JavaEOControl.framework"/>
    >>> </frameworks>
    >>> <frameworks root="${wo.localroot}/Library/Frameworks">
    >>> </frameworks>
    >>> <classpath>
    >>> <fileset dir="${wo.localroot}">
    >>> <include
    >>> name="/Library/WebObjects/Extensions/log4j-1.2.4.jar" />
    >>> </fileset>
    >>> </classpath>
    >>> </wocompile>
    >>
    >> WOLips creates some patternset files for an application. With this
    >> files it's very easy to compile from the command line. WOLips
    >> automatically updates these files on classpath modification. We could
    >> enable this feature also for frameworks.
    >>
    >> <taskdef name="wocompile"
    >> classname="org.objectstyle.woproject.ant.WOCompile"></taskdef>
    >> <wocompile srcdir="src" destdir="foo">
    >> <frameworks root="${wo.wosystemroot}">
    >> <patternset>
    >> <includesfile name="ant.frameworks.wo.wosystemroot"/>
    >> </patternset>
    >> </frameworks>
    >> <frameworks root="${wo.wolocalroot}">
    >> <patternset>
    >> <includesfile name="ant.frameworks.wo.wolocalroot"/>
    >> </patternset>
    >> </frameworks>
    >> <frameworks root="${user.home}">
    >> <patternset>
    >> <includesfile name="ant.frameworks.user.home"/>
    >> </patternset>
    >> </frameworks>
    >> <classpath>
    >> <fileset dir=".">
    >> <include name="lib/log4j-1.2.4.jar" />
    >> </fileset>
    >> </classpath>
    >> </wocompile>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    > That's very similar to what i've done. I've created a shell script
    > that takes the WOLips generated build.xml file and add the wocompile
    > task.
    > It takes the ant.frameworks* and ant.classpath* to generate the
    > correct <frameworks> and <classpath> entries.
    > It works fine for both Frameworks and Apps.
    > Once the new Eclipse/WOLips are released i'll rework it to take your
    > changes into account.
    >
    >>
    >>>
    >>> All the Frameworks and classpath components defined here are
    >>> extracted from the .classpath file . This makes it quite a heavy
    >>> process :(
    >>> On top of it, it breaks compilation from within Eclipse. Wich forces
    >>> to have to build files per project ( maintenance nightmare ).
    >>> I was wondering what would be a clean way to make it work
    >>> automatically.
    >>> Is there a way to generate a "command line compatible" build file
    >>> from within eclipse/WOLips ? It this feature planned ?
    >>> Otherwise i was thinking of building a shell script to extract all
    >>> the missing params from the .classpath and automatically build a
    >>> command line compatible build.xml file from the WOLips version ....
    >>> Any other suggestion is welcome !
    >>> Let me know what you think !
    >>
    >> We should enable the generation of the ant.* files for frameworks
    >> plus some additions to the build.xml.
    > I don't follow you here. For me ( WOLips 1.0.7.50 , eclipse 2.1.3 )
    > the ant.* files are generated also for Frameworks. Am i missing
    > something ?

    Sorry, my fault. The WOFramework wizard does not generate these files.
    Anyway they get generated on a classpath change.

    Ulrich



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