John Sisson wrote:
> Neal Sanche wrote:
>
>> Sachin Patel wrote:
>>
>>> Any objections on me checking in the XDoclet jira (778) into a
>>> devtools sandbox so people can start working on it?
>>>
>>> There also needs to be some work done in WTP as well as in the
>>> geronimo plugins so that the tags can get registered in WTP in both
>>> the xdoclet configuration panel and in content assist. I can work
>>> on driving those changes in.
>>>
>>> Sachin.
>>>
>> I'm curious about this XDoclet stuff. Does this mean that deployment
>> plans will be built from XDoclet? Or is it for some other purpose?
>
>
> Currently it supports the generation of the openejb-jar.xml file for
> session and message-driven beans. See the JIRA issue regarding
> limitations/further work required.
>
> There may be people who already have EJB applications written for
> other application servers where the build of the EJB application uses
> XDoclet tags (e.g. @ejb and @weblogic/@websphere/@jboss) in their EJBs.
>
> The Geronimo XDoclet plugin adds support for the @geronimo tag.
> Therefore those XDoclet users could add the appropriate @geronimo tags
> to their EJBs to generate openejb-jar.xml files in addition to the
> other App server specific files. Note that it isn't as simple as
> changing @weblogic to @geronimo in your EJB code though, since the tag
> parameters are application server specific.
>
True. But a lot of the context would probably be derived from the @ejb
tags, right? So I would expect there to be some commonality between
them. But thanks for the information. I'll have to go look at the JIRA
and see if I can make use of the XDoclet module. I'm a big addict of
XDoclet.
-Neal
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