| RE: [wtp-dev] Extending WTP ? |
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Yann, It would be best to post these sort of questions on WebTools
Forum. This mailing list is intended for discussion between committers and
contributers regarding the development of WTP. http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=88&S=b0d77d695da00fdba9a18b7c6b5ebbea Regarding your first question, I am confused why you are trying
to write your own server adapter rather than utilizing adapters already present
in WTP or distributed by server vendors. In the case of both WebLogic and
WebSphere, you can install server adapters directly from Oracle / IBM by
clicking on the "Download additional server adapters" link in the new
server runtime wizard. If you do want to develop your own server adapter, it is
certainly possibly to do that directly in API, but you should expect to spend
significantly more time writing the adapter than if you used the generic server
adapter framework. Depending on the efficiency of your own custom
implementation, it may or may not perform better than a comparable
implementation written using the generic server framework. I would say that the
generic server framework does not produce "commercial-grade" results,
but there is several orders of magnitude difference in implementation costs. The
best way to get an idea on size and complexity of this task is to take a look
at server adapter implementations in WTP. The Tomcat adapter is a custom
implementation, while all the rest are based on the generic server framework.
You can compare these implementations and judge for yourself. - Konstantin From: wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yann Andenmatten Hi, We
are developping a product which can be customized using eclipse. In order to
ease the customisation we would like to introduce WTP to
start/stop/debug/publish to the server. Our product can be run on several
platform (mainly WebLogic and WebSphere) and we have an installation process
which install our product on those servers. I've
seen we can define a generic server with Ant scripts to start/stop the server
as well as to deploy modifications to the server. However I'm wondering if
running ant (in a new jvm?) each time a ressource is modified is fast enough ?
And if extending WTP with our new server is a hard work ? (we have good eclipse
plugin developpment skills). In other word, is the effort to develop a new
server affordable only to server vendors/open source community ? One
other question related to how WTP is organised. In our case, the ear and war
doesn't change much. The pages are created in spearate java project. Therefore
in many case it doesn't make sens to have the ear and the web projects in the
workspace. Does WTP support this or will we be forced to have those project in
the workspace ? Thanks, Yann
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