Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-geronimo-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 23037 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2008 03:24:14 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Jul 2008 03:24:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 55631 invoked by uid 500); 15 Jul 2008 03:24:13 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-geronimo-dev-archive@geronimo.apache.org Received: (qmail 55577 invoked by uid 500); 15 Jul 2008 03:24:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@geronimo.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: Reply-To: dev@geronimo.apache.org List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@geronimo.apache.org Received: (qmail 55566 invoked by uid 99); 15 Jul 2008 03:24:12 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:24:12 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [68.142.237.93] (HELO n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com) (68.142.237.93) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:23:17 +0000 Received: from [68.142.237.88] by n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jul 2008 03:22:25 -0000 Received: from [69.147.75.191] by t4.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jul 2008 03:22:25 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp107.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jul 2008 03:22:25 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 758186.23064.bm@omp107.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 2219 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Jul 2008 03:22:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=hoRF/yC5zKeIsbrSHPzN1T3V86NN8k3+W+SsyISPsJPPKrwC/hXND0w9++RSYVWzGicrPCl1G7gY7BT7j4WKbdtWjeZs1HVunvttzlyGbkLEPAUHCvDM1JgYH4vGBxbWXap+VG/RKloXdgka598mw/lIjxIcOHH6hRwXi3i/+FQ=; Received: from [202.108.130.138] by web57515.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:22:25 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1042.40 YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:22:25 -0700 (PDT) From: YunFeng Ma Subject: GEP should link deployment plan and deployment descriptor To: g_dev gero MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-657155152-1216092145=:1534" Message-ID: <642612.1534.qm@web57515.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --0-657155152-1216092145=:1534 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Now the GEP provides rich funnctionalities to edit geronimo deployment plan, such as geronimo-web.xml, but it doesn't link deployment plan and deployment descriptor. For example, adding a EJB reference in the geronimo-web.xml Deployment editor only changes deployment plan, it doesn't add a ejb-ref to deployment descriptor web.xml, the developers have to add the ejb-ref to web.xml manually. There are other such kind of pairs: openejb-jar.xml vs. ejb-jar.xml, geronio-application.xml vs. application.xml, geronimo-ra.xml vs. ra.xml etc. Most importantly, the design of GEP has not provided a mechanism to support this feature. I think we should consider this now rather than later when GEP becomes more complicated. What's your thought? Thanks -- Yun Feng --0-657155152-1216092145=:1534 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Now the GEP provides rich funnctionalities to edit geronimo deployment plan, such as geronimo-web.xml, but it doesn't link deployment plan and deployment descriptor. For example, adding a EJB reference in the geronimo-web.xml Deployment editor only changes deployment plan, it doesn't add a ejb-ref to deployment descriptor web.xml, the developers have to add the ejb-ref to web.xml manually.
There are other such kind of pairs: openejb-jar.xml vs. ejb-jar.xml, geronio-application.xml vs. application.xml, geronimo-ra.xml vs. ra.xml etc.
Most importantly, the design of GEP has not provided a mechanism to support this feature. I think we should consider this now rather than later when GEP becomes more complicated. What's your thought?

Thanks
-- Yun Feng

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