Re: Some feedback about Jonas 5.2 M4 and Eclipse JEE 3.6.2 + JOPE 5.1

Hi,

Answering to myself, to provide some information to people willing to 
use Jonas 5.2 and Eclipse:

- The ear is not properly generated with the "run as" command, but is 
properly generated using the export ear command. As such, a simple 
workaround is to export the ear directly to $JONAS_HOME/deploy when 
Jonas is running.

- JOPE uses its own command line for launching Jonas, i.e. does not rely 
on the settings of the scripts for the memory for instance (JAVA_OPTS 
variable in setenv). I had a lot of permgen space problems running Jonas 
with the default settings.
Once can just change the memory settings directly in the Run 
configuration (JVM parameters).

There is however something I did not find:
how to prevent JOPE to try to redeploy the ear at each change in a file?

I also noticed something strange: it looks like the message beans that 
were deployed in my ear are still attached to the topics after I 
redeploy an ear (I was expecting those beans to be cleaned up).
As such, I got several copies of my message bean after several deployment.

Is this a known issue?

Cheers,

	Daniel

On 08/03/2011 21:11, Daniel Le Berre wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I guess many of you are using ant or maven for deploying your apps on jonas.
>
> In my case, I use Eclipse as main environment for experimenting some
> parts of the JEE specification on Jonas.
>
> Here are a few things I noticed regarding the integration of Jonas 5.2
> with Eclipse 3.6.2.
>
> a) deployment with recent releases of WTP (Eclipse JEE)
>
> WTP has changed last year the way the dependencies are described into
> web projects.
>
> The dependencies are now expressed in the "Deployment Assembly" menu
> item from the project properties.
>
> I noticed yesterday that utility jars (from an Eclipse "Utility
> Project") are not correctly embedded in the ear to be deployed
> in Jonas.
>
> Indeed, AFAIK, utility jars are supposed to be located in a lib
> directory in the ear archive to be shared among all the components of
> the ear.
>
> When creating an ear, the information regarding the lib directory is
> correctly displayed in the ear project. However, when the ear file is
> built for deployment in Jonas, the utility jar in added in the root of
> the archive, not in the lib directory.
>
> As a consequence, the other modules (webapps in my case), are not able
> to see the content of that jar. My only solution for now is to unzip the
> produced ear, create the lib directory, move the utility jar in it and
> create a new zip.
>
> I used the latest version of Eclipse JEE (3.6 SR2) + Jope 5.1 + Jonas
> 5.2 M4 for my tests.
>
> It means for me that deploying an ear containing JPA entities shared
> between webapps cannot be done within Eclipse :(
>
> b) Access to JPA 2.0 api in Eclipse
>
> The runtime of Jonas 5.x is defined as being the content of
> $JONAS_HOME/lib/common + internal-ee-tld + java-ee-api.
>
> Jonas 5.2 is supposed to be JPA 2.0 friendly. However, the JPA 2.0 api
> is not included in java-ee-api, which makes the use of JPA 2.0 a bit
> painful inside eclipse (my workaround is for the moment to move the jpa
> 2.0 api from the bootstrap directory to lib/common to have it seen from
> Eclipse, not very nice :()
>
> I know that we already discussed that issue last year, and that passing
> TCK for JEE 5 is at the origin of that organization of the API, but it
> would be nice to have an easy way to pick those extra jars in Jope in
> some ways.
>
>
> I use Jonas in academia, just to demonstrate some features of EJB
> programming, so a basic integration of Jonas and Eclipse is sufficient
> for me.
>
> I think the current Jope WTP adapter is no far away from that right now.
> However, Jope does not seem much active currently (no new release since
> November 2009?).
>
> I wonder what kind of IDE integration people are using in this list?
>
> (Being a member of both OW2 and Eclipse communities drives me to use
> those two tools together, so using another IDE is not an option ;))
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> 	Daniel
> -- Daniel Le Berre mailto:[email protected] MCF-HDR, CRIL-CNRS UMR 8188,
> Universite d'Artois http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/~leberre
>