Re: [wtp-dev] Regarding the wisdom of export vs deployable factory

[Jason A Sholl <jsholl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Rob,

Yes, this is something we have talked
about in the past.  There are in fact 4 different code paths :)  Two
for export (one for EE 5 and one for J2EE 1.4 and below).  And two
for deployable (one for EE5 and one for J2EE 1.4 and below).

One step in the right direction I was
hoping to make during M6 is consolidating the export (and import) functions
to run on top of IArchive (i.e. remove the CommonArchive code path here).

The step would be to combine both J2EE
and JEE deployable factories into one; this could occur in parallel, but
we haven't made plans to address this.

The final step would be to take the
combined deployable factory and rework it to also use IArchive, and again,
we have not made plans to address this.

Thank you,

Jason A. Sholl
jsholl@xxxxxxxxxx
919-543-0011 (t/l 441-0011)

From:	Rob Stryker <rob.stryker@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:	"General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues." <wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	02/13/2009 04:31 AM
Subject:	[wtp-dev] Regarding the wisdom of export vs deployable factory

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Hi all:

Currently there are two ways to turn a project into a jar / war / ear 
etc. The first is to use the export menu selections. The second is to 
use a deployable server adapter.

My question is, what is the wisdom between having two different sections
of code (not just two entry points, but 2 different pieces of code 
entirely) in charge of compiling the output archive? As an example, the
JEEDeployableFactory exposes a webtools project in the servertools API.
You also have the J2EEExportArtifactOperation for exporting.  They
both 
seem to do much of the same thing, though slightly differently. One 
(JEEFlexProjDeployable) uses just the virtual component model. The other
(export) is checking ComponentArchiveLoadAdapter and a whole host of 
parallel model code.

Wouldn't it be wise to have both the export functionality and the 
deployable factories be simply entry points to the same code, rather 
than having huge swaths of duplicate code with slight but undefined 
differences between the two? I do remember in the past there were also
inconsistencies between the export behavior and a server adapter's 
behavior because of the differences in the export vs deployable code.

Any thoughts?

- Rob Stryker
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