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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:00:37 -0500
From: "Aaron Mulder" <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu>
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To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Improve 'Geronimo' Development
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Have you considered using the in-place deployment features to load
classes from target/classes or something like that?  I know for
example IDEA can generate an exploded WAR on each build which you
could deploy as an in-place deployment...

Thanks,
       Aaron

On 11/3/06, Sachin Patel <sppatel2@gmail.com> wrote:
> So since I've been working on Geronimo, one of the most annoying things
> developing Geronimo in an IDE is the overhead involved between modifing code
> and being able to test the code.  For a single line change you have to
> rebuild and install the module, rebuild the assembly, and re-extract and
> relaunch the server image.  This is needed since Geronimo loads classes from
> the server repository and currently cannot from the local m2 repo or from
> the "target/classes" directory itself.
>
> Well to ease the developer experience I think we need to change that.  As a
> first step, I'd like to see if we can hook into geronimo a "developers
> module" that the repository code can delegate over to to load from the m2
> repo.  That itself would be an improvement and developers could simply
> rebuild the module without having to regen a new assembly.  A step beyond
> that would be the ability to treat the source tree as a repo, and geronimo
> load directly from target/classes, this is tricker since the modules in the
> source tree don't follow a groupId/artifact/version/type convention so some
> sort of intelligent mapping would have to be done.  In theory, this would
> give us the ability to simply compile a module (with an IDE compiler and not
> maven) and simply re-start the server.
>
> Would this be an effort that would be valuable to the community?
>
> If so, if there are suggestions on how to go about implementing either the
> first or second solution, please give your input.
>
> thx
>
>
> -sachin
>
>