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 < <mailto:[email protected]>
[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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