OK, I've bitten the bullet and decided the next project will be done
in Eclipse and WOLips.
And now I remember why I did not do it before. I first tried to set
up Eclipse. Problem with 3.2.2 was that the help function did not
work. And the updates did not work. On a hunch, I tried running
Eclipse under admin privileges. Now updates do work.
I download WOLips from http://webobjects.mdimension.com/WOLips/
stable/ and install WOLips. Still no help.
Then I decide to install Eclipse 3.3M7, seeing if it is any better in
the help department. Again, installing as an admin user, then
installing WOLips. It works.
Then (in 3.3m7) I start a new WOFramework, to get the BusinessLogic
in one place. Let's call it BuL.Framework. Then I start the new
EOModel in the Framework. I use the Wizard to create a model in the
Framework.
First I get a message with title "EOModel Verification Failures" that
says: "Creating empty EOModelGroup for this model because BuL does
not exist."
I click OK, no other options.
I get an error: "Error while creating resource reason: Bul does not
exist. "
I click OK, no other options.
I am back in the Create Enterprise Model wizard.
Again I click on finish, and get the "EOModel Verification Failures"
thas says: "There's already a model in /Users/johan/Documents/
workspace/Bul/MyEOModel.eomodeld.
Hmm.
I click on OK. I am back in Package Explorer, with a folder MyEOModel
EOModel, a MyEOModel.eogen file and a MyEOModel.eomodelgrouo.
I click on the folder MyEOModel EOModel, and get the following error:
Unable to create this part due to an internal error. Reason for the
failure: Failed to create EOModelEditorInput for
org.eclipse.ui.part.FileEditorInput(/BuL/MyEOModel.eomodeld/
index.eomodeld).
BuL does not exist
That for Eclipse 3.3, with the help.
So I decide to use Eclipse 3.2.2, without the help. I recognizes my
BuL project, but clicking the Help does not reveal anything. So I
click on MyEoModel. Unfortunately, I have somehow screwed up the view
and I only get a full window with Entity Modeler back. How do I get
the view back that is in the manual that I can only read in Eclipse 3.3?
I find a small button in the upper right corner, that says: Other.
There I find the WOLips perspective back. But every time I click on
the Model, it gives me the strange perspective, with the Name/Table
Name/Class Name and Parent name. I then discover the Open In New
Window contextual Menu option, that opens a new window in the
perspective that is in the manual.
"Hurrah!! and all that", as Blackadder's empty headed companion would
say.
On the bottom there is a small green messages that says: "Read Me
Trim (Bottom)".
On the menu items I find the button reverse engineer. However, in the
Default Config connection properties I am not able to use prototypes
(should I have added ERPrototypes to the Framework?) but I do manage
to set up the connection and get the tables and relations in the
project. I get a whole lot of error messages while saving that I
should not have put a relation value to not be able to be null while
not making it a mandatory relation.
I... must... use... prototpyes....
,
so I get back to step one, I create a Wonder Framework, and now the
Eomodel gets created without any complaints. Also, I can now use the
EOJDCBPostgresPrototypes, that I want to use. ONce again, a reverse
engineering import, and I seem to have a basic WonderBuL framework,
and I would like to use it for a direct to Web Application.
So on to deploying this basic framework. After some searching (no
project->deployment option) I dsicover that there is a build folder.
The things I see there look famliar. So I copy the framework to /
Library/Frameworks. Mind you, it is only an Eomodel for the moment in
the Framework.
According to the documentation, I should be able to select the
Framework by clicking on the configure buttton on the conectextual
menu with the mousepointer over the WO Frameworks in my WonderBul
project. Unfortunately, it does not show up. Frameworks without jars
are apparently no frameworks according to Eclipse/WoLipses logic.
It is now a few hours later, I just wanted to do make a simple
BusinessLogic Framework and do some direct to web formatting and
discover the capabilities of Eclipse.
How do you guys get any work done?
Regards,
Johan Henselmans
http://www.netsense.nl
Tel: +31-20-6267538
Fax: +31-20-6273852
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