Re: using woproject with more complex directory structure

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 14:07:23 EST

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    On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Will Norris wrote:

    > Searching google provided only
    > <http://www.objectstyle.org/woproject/lists/woproject-dev/2002/10/
    > 0009.html>
    > and I'm afraid I may already know the answer to my question, but let's
    > try anyway. If there is another thread discussing this, just point me
    > in that direction.
    >
    > In trying to structure all of my project files in a more logical way,
    > I'm running into some problems with the PB.project file that is
    > generated. My directory structure goes a little something like..
    >
    > src/java -- *.java
    Use packages. This should be
    Project/src/com/foo/bar/*.java

    > src/resources -- eomodels and such
    >
    Use a sub-project:
    Project/Resources.subproj/

    > src/web -- web resources

    Use a subproject:
    Project/Web.subproj/

    > src/components -- *.java for wocomponents
    >
    Use packages
    Project/src/com/foo/bar/components/*.java

    > src/components/resources -- *.api & *.wo
    >
    Use a sub-project:
    Projects/Components.subproj/
    You have to manually move the .java files to
    Project/src/com/foo/bar/components/*.java after WOBuilder creates them,
    but only once.

    HTH
    Chuck

    > because of the location of my component resource files, my PB.project
    > file contains something similar to
    > WO_COMPONENTS =
    > (
    > src/wocomponents/resources/Main.wo,
    > src/wocomponents/resources/PageWrapper.wo,
    > ....
    > )
    >
    > When I want to add a PageWrapper component to my Main component, I can
    > do one of two things in WOBuilder for the class name...
    >
    > 1) "src/wocomponents/resources/PageWrapper" -- If i choose this, then
    > WOBuilder finds the correct files and allows me to set the bindings
    > normally; everything seems normal. However, when I actually run the
    > application, it is unable to find the component. At runtime, all the
    > components are in "Contents/Resources", but I believe it is looking
    > for this one in "Contents/Resources/src/wocomponents/resources/"
    >
    > 2) "PageWrapper" -- with this, it finds the correct component at
    > runtime but WOBuilder can't find the component at design time.
    >
    >
    > I know the easy solution is to place all my components in the root
    > directory (as Ulrich mentioned in his post), but this provides for a
    > very messy Project directory and just feels like a bad way to do
    > things. Am I stuck with doing that, or is there another way people
    > have figured out?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Will
    > 

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