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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:07:58 -0700
From: Mark Aufdencamp <mark@aufdencamp.com>
Subject: RE: Using XDoclet to generate openejb-jar.xml
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Jonathan,

I have run into this issue as well.  Please see my posts from the
Spring.   My research revealed that the OpenEJB XDoclet implementation
was indeed for version 1.0 of OpenEJB.  I did not find a release for
version 2.0 of OpenEJB.

Not having the openejb-jar.xml mappings generated from the source did
make managing my Entity Beans a little harrier.  I was able to generate
the ejb-jar.xml from the XDoclet annotations, but had to hand develop
the openejb-jar.xml from scratch.  It worked, but I'd love to be able to
plug-in an XDoclet module and have the base openejb-jar.xml generated. 
It whould serve as an initial source for a deployment tool utilized by a
Server Administrator.  That enables clear seperation of developer and
administrator duties, while offering codebase stability and deployment
flexibility.

Mark Aufdencamp
Mark@Aufdencamp.com

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Using XDoclet to generate openejb-jar.xml
> From: Jonathan Gallimore <jgallimore@wav2.com>
> Date: Tue, August 14, 2007 7:28 am
> To: user@geronimo.apache.org
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Apologies if this has been asked before, but I was wondering whether 
> anyone uses XDoclet to generate their openejb-jar.xml deployment 
> descriptors?
> 
> Currently we're developing for JBoss 4, and are part way through getting 
> our app to deploy on the community edition of Websphere. The J2G 
> migration tool has done an excellent job of migrating our deployment 
> descriptors, but going forward I'd still like to add all the necessary 
> XML stuff for new EJBs using XDoclet rather than hand editing the 
> openejb-jar.xml. Having hunted around it looks like the openejb task 
> that comes with XDoclet is for a much older version, and only handles 
> session beans.
> 
> I've started work on an xdoclet plugin that generates a basic 
> openejb-jar.xml for me, and I was just wondering whether I had missed an 
> existing tool/plugin and was just duplicating work (obviously if I 
> haven't and this is a useful piece of work, I'd be happy to continue and 
> share it).
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone has.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon