Brad,
Thank you very much for the information.
This sounds exactly like what I want to hear. I do have a couple of follow-up questions,
however. Some of them might be newbie questions since I am just starting with
WTP. If so, I am happy to be referred to any resources I can use to catch up.
If I understand you correctly, I want to
define a new org.eclipse.wst.server.core.moduleType. I am not entirely clear what,
exactly, this entails. Does this mean creating a new moduleType, and new
moduleFactory, and new moduleFactoryAdapter and a new launchableAdapter?
I am also unclear on what you mean by “mixing
deployables”.
A lot of this terminology is new to me. Is
there some kind of step-by-step tutorial—you know, something like “So
You Want to Create a New Type”? If not, could you point me out to the
best example of an implementation that is more or less parallel to what I am
trying to do? If this tutorial doesn’t exist, I would be happy to write
one as I go through enabling cactus launching. I just might need a little
hand-holding on the way.
Thanks again for your help.
Dan
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Daniel R Somerfield
BEA Systems
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wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brad Blancett
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005
6:51 AM
To: General discussion of
project-wide or architectural issues.
Subject: Re: [wtp-dev]
IModuleArtifact and Cactus Testing
Hey Daniel,
Tim
Deboer, fixed the module adapter collision problems associated in M3. In M4 you
can have adapters overlapping on compilation units. Currently, the EJB and Web
deployables are overlapping on multiple objects, ie IResource.. Filtering
occurs in the ArtifactAdapter, where deployables are returned by type:
ServerUtil.getModules("j2ee.web or j2ee.ejb")). This basically calls
into a plugin defined factory where you create/retrieve the deployables
you are interested in. I would recommend creating your own type with respect to
cactus testing. In this case you would be responsible for making sure the
server framework, can associate a server for this type. For minimal support,
you could mix deployables (catcus. and non cactus) using j2ee.* types. The user
would choose on the server wizard's last page which module to be deployed.
Ideally,
I would like to see the server framework utilize function groups/ activities.
The extra layer would add more flexibility for filtering deployables.
WebDeployableArtifact.getServletMapping(),
the J2EEWebNatureRuntimeUtilities.getJ2EERuntime(), this is a bug, as of
M4, you will not be able to create projects with J2EE Natures.
In fact migration is already in place to migrate old natrues to
ModuleCoreNatures. I will fix this to utilize the flexible framework.
Regardless, this wont be an issue if you create your own adapter.
Thanks,
Brad Blancett
IBM Software Solutions
Tie 3-2650
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Hi all,
As I
mentioned previously, I am working on cactus testing for WTP. I think it
certainly makes sense in the long term to integrate server-side unit testing with
TPTP. However, until we get to that point, it would be nice to support
something, however minimal. Currently, I have a very simple launch shortcut for
executing cactus tests on the server. I have run into a couple of challenges,
however, and I wanted to get a little bit of feedback from the community.
In my
mind, the Cactus test case is very similar to the servlet case. You examine a
CompilationUnit and if it extends ServletTestCase, it is a WebResource. I was
able to do something similar (creating a WebTestableResource), but it required
a modification to WebDeployableArtifactUtil.getModuleObject() to do it. The
challenge is that the org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.web plugin has a
moduleArtifactAdapter enabled for ICompilationUnit and unless I am mistaken, I can’t
add my own moduleArtifactAdapter without clashing. Is this correct, or can two
adapter peacefully co-exist somehow?
The
other issue that started recently with the latest integration build (I20050331)
is that in WebDeployableArtifact.getServletMapping(), the
J2EEWebNatureRuntimeUtilities.getJ2EERuntime(). I was using that to validate
that the cactus servlet had been set up for the project that is being run. I
have had to disable that for now. Ultimately, I would like to automatically add
the servlet mapping when a test is run, but I have not figured that out how to
do that yet.
I
would be happy to share this code with anyone who is interested or I could post
it to the group, if that is deemed appropriate. I am using some internal APIs
and if there are more appropriate public APIs, I would definitely like to hear
about them.
Thanks,
Daniel
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