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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@m64.com>
To: <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Optional EJB tasks (was RE: Subpackages of ...taskdefs.optional)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 02:14:00 +1000
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Tim,

Thanks for your code. I have committed my 4.5.1 tasks and I will look at
committing your task in the next few days.

Conor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Fennell [mailto:tfenne@rcn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 July 2000 21:28
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Optional EJB tasks (was RE: Subpackages of
> ...taskdefs.optional)
>
>
> Okay, here is the code. I hope people don't mind the attachment, but it's
> quite large!
>
> If this is useful to anyone, I'd love some feedback on the utility of some
> things I am thinking of doing with it:
>
> - Change from having the main class implement DocumentHandler to having an
> inner class and using the javax.xml pluggability instead of
> org.xml.sax.helper...
> - Splitting into two classes: main EJB1.1 scanner with a callback Task
> mechanism for registering the appserver(s) proprietary tools, this way the
> bulk of the work, assembling the jar in the first place, could be used by
> any EJB1.1. task. Any better ideas?
> - Changing the naming standard reliance for the WL descriptors (right now,
> must be beanName-weblogic-ejb-jar.xml) to be based on the original
> deployment descriptor with some simply pattern matching (e.g. you
> specificy
> upto the first '-' or something like that). This would allow more flexible
> naming, and also package or multi-package jars not just single-bean jars.
>
> -t
>
> ps. This is the task from my current build.xml:
>
>   <target name="ejbs" depends="classes">
>     <ejbgen srcdir="${destDir}"
>             destdir="${destDir}"
>             includes="${ejbdds}"
>             excludes="${wldds}"
>             generateweblogic="true"
>             keepgeneric="true"
>             genericjarsuffix="-temp.jar"
>             weblogicjarsuffix="-wl.jar"/>
>   </target>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Werner [mailto:wwerner@picturesafe.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 07:11
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: AW: Optional EJB tasks (was RE: Subpackages of
> ...taskdefs.optional)
>
>
> > On the topic of EJB tasks, has anyone written anything for EJB1.1 and/or
> > Weblogic 5.1?
> >
> > If not, then I'd like to offer up what I have. I hava an EJB task that
> > inherits from directory scanner, scans for deployment descriptors and
> > assembles the EJB1.1 jars from the contents of the descriptor
> > (XML only, not
> > the 1.0 serialized classes), then optionally calls weblogic's
> ejbc. Works
> > very well for me, and now I can have only one task for all of
> my EJBs. It
> > should also be really easy to extend to call other vendors' compilers.
> >
> > Is there any interest? If so then I'll post the code here (I
> > assume this is
> > the right forum?).
> Great! I'm working with WLS 5.1 and use currently only
> java - tasks to assemple things. Please post your stuff!
>
> I'm sure that on this list are others who try to generate
> a neutral EJB support task / and or working on simmilar
> stuff.
>
> open source works!
>
> Wolfgang Werner
> wwerner@picturesafe.de
>