Netbeans and Expresso ... Re: [Opensource] Eclipse and Expresso

[David Herron]

On Monday, Apr 21, 2003, at 07:52 US/Pacific, Thompson, Kris wrote:

> I want to give eclipse a spin with Expresso and checked out the 
> document on our jcorporate site which explains how to do this but I'm 
> not satisfied with how this is done, so I'm asking the group of those 
> users of Eclipse did you setup your Expresso project as the document 
> states?  In particular I don't like how you have to copy some of the 
> expresso code into the eclipse WEB-INF/src directory.  Now I have to 
> keep both directories in sync if I care to ever get updates from 
> Expresso and if I ever want to contribute back which I do.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kris

I don't use Eclipse (I'm perfectly happy with Netbeans, plus I'm uneasy 
about the apparent political aims of Eclipse), but the same issue 
likely holds for Netbeans use.

The other day I "mounted", using Netbeans, a directory into which I'd 
unpacked

	expresso-5-3-0-bin.war
	eforum3-0-ea1.zip

And this was being used by my AppServer (Resin) to serve up web pages.

Amazingly, Netbeans went ahead and "mounted" a whole buncha stuff 
automagically from the directory structure:

	the root directory of the whole thing
	the "WEB-INF/classes" directory (where the .class files were)
	each and every WEB-INF/lib/**.jar file in the package

This seems to be useful, in that Netbeans will be able to compile 
everything (e.g. if I'd unpacked the -complete.war, the sources would 
be under there and I could easily change/recompile anything).

It seems that what you're asking isn't about how to make it work in the 
IDE, but instead how to handle merging a) Expresso from JCorporate with 
b) your own code to c) create your web site.  Rather than unpacking the 
.war file, it would be better if I had the CVS tree mounted and somehow 
had a script or something or other which pulled together everything and 
created the correct .war file.

Yes/No?

- David Herron 
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