Converting from Xcode to eclipse & wolips/woproject

From: Scott Anderson (scot..ccendi.com)
Date: Wed Jul 21 2004 - 09:54:35 EDT

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    Hello All,

    We have a number of large WebObjects projects currently being developed
    using Xcode on Mac OS X. These projects consist of a number of
    frameworks and some number of applications. We use subversion for
    revision control on these particular projects with a custom client that
    uses the name "CVS" for the admin directory so that WOBuilder and
    EOModeler don't trash the subversion information. Specific questions
    are at the bottom...

    We have been breathlessly waiting for Eclipse 3.0 and WOLips to reach
    synergy so that we can fully explore conversion. We are very interested
    in taking advantage of the productivity enhancements this combination
    can provide for large projects.

    I've am working on getting a large project that is our pilot into some
    working with this setup. As I'm a newbie to both Eclipse and WOLips, I
    sometimes get confused as to which tool is responsible for the
    functionality that I need to configure.

    My current plan is this:

    1. Create a new workspace for this project and create a WOLips
    framework project for each of the frameworks, and an Application
    project for each of the applications.

    2. Copy the java files from the old frameworks and apps into the new
    equivalent's src directories.

    3. Copy the components from the old frameworks and apps into the new
    equivalents directory (keeping the subdirectory Component -- is that ok
    & best practice for this setup?)

    4. Copy the models into their frameworks in a subdirectory named Models
    and somehow setup auto generation of the 2-tier classes again
    (currently done with eogenerator)

    Specific Questions

    1. How do you set up a model to be recognized by Eclipse/WOLips for
    auto-generation. We currently use eogenerator but there appears to be a
    woproject task that can do this and converting our templates are not a
    big deal I imagine.

    2. There are jar files in some of the frameworks that are normally
    copied by a copy files build phase in Xcode into Resources/Java so that
    the applications pick them up -- what is the best way to do this in the
    Eclipse/WOLips environment.

    3. Is there a document that covers getting started with WOLips that I'm
    missing?

    4. ivars don't seem to be showing up in WOBuilder -- I seem to recall
    that this might be a known limitation of this version of WOLips -- is
    that true?

    5. THANK YOU VERY MUCH to all who make this project possible.

    If anyone has tips on moving from an Xcode environment I'd love to hear
    them!

    -s



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