Re: Eclipse configuration for template development

Many thanks for these hints.

It works, I've been able to have a stable auto-completion and debug in JSPs.

Thanks again.

2006/11/10, Lorenzo Patocchi <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Boris,
> i'm actually using Eclipse to develop and debug jahia projects.
> What You additionally need is:
>     - MyEclipseIDE (http://www.myeclipseide.com/)
>
> once installed You can start a new Web Project with standard
> directories: src and web(*) where src contains properties&java sources
> and web the webstuff (WEB-INF jsp etc),
> then you have to split your jahia installation in 2 main pieces.
>
> - bundled tomcat
> - webapps/jahia contents to be moved into web(*) of eclipse project
>
> because of the move now tomcat will not find anymore jahia, so you have
> to create a jahia.xml inside tomcat's webapps that specify the new
> location of jahia with context path="/jahia"
>
> in eclipse then:
> - copy properties from web/WEB-INF/classes to src
> - configure myeclipse properties to add a new application server to
> point where you installed jahia's tomcat (tomcat4)
>
> ensure all jar in WEB-INF are found and added to project's build-path
> probably eclipse&myeclipse will start to compile all jsp (may take a
> little while)
>
> and now you are ready to start jahia from inside eclipse, develop and
> debug :-)
>
> good luck!
>
> Lorenzo Patocchi
>
> Boris Maras wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to use Eclipse to ease template development.
> > If you use it, how did you configure it? Which plugins? Which
> > connection with Tomcat&Jahia? Which debugging facilities?
> >
> > I'm currently using Eclipse 3.2.1 with WTP plugin.
> > It gives me the following features :
> > - auto-completion on taglibs
> > - unstable auto-completion on Java embedded in JSPs
> > - but still no debug on JSP
> >
> >
> > I created a "dynamic web project" and put the Jahia libs in the build
> > path. I also copied the WEB-INF directory so that Eclipse can find the
> > tlds and web.xml
> > But I did not manage to link it to Tomcat/Jahia. The stacktraces in
> > the mailing-lists seem to show that some of you managed to do it. Any
> > hints? :-)
> > I currently deploy my templates using an Ant task (it creates a jar,
> > and then copies it to the new_templates directory).
> >
> > The auto-completion on Java is unstable. Here is what happens :
> > First example : in a JSP, if I have the following code,
> > auto-completion is fine :
> >     <%
> >     JahiaData jData = (JahiaData) request.getAttribute(
> > "org.jahia.data.JahiaData" );
> >     ContentPage contentPage = ContentPage.getPage(jData.page().getID());
> >     %>
> > Second example : I add a line using the class ParamBean.
> > Auto-completion is still fine on the first line, but is disabled on
> > every line after the one using ParamBean (error message : "Java
> > Content Assist is not available for the current cursor location") :
> >     <%
> >     JahiaData jData = (JahiaData) request.getAttribute (
> > "org.jahia.data.JahiaData" );
> >     ParamBean jParams = jData.params();
> >     ContentPage contentPage = ContentPage.getPage(jData.page().getID());
> >     %>
> >
> > It's very annoying because ParamBean is used very often. I need to
> > comment these lines whenever I want auto-completion to work (but, of
> > course, I have compilation errors).
> > Any ideas to work around this problem?
> >
> > More globally, do you have another plugin and/or IDE that works better
> > for these features?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Boris Maras
>
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