[Russ]

I have been porting my projects over from WSAD to MyEclipse. Most of them are done…thanks to the great help I’ve gotten from this forum. Now I am working through the remaining projects. The present one is a J2EE Project. Looking at the WSAD tool, there is a project type under J2EE projects for an Application Client project; however, I do not see this type of project within MyEclipse 5.1. When I go look at Eclipse 3.2 Help documentation http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.doc.user/topics/tjappproj.html I see this project type is available. Given the fact your product supports 3.2.1, did this functionality not make it into MyEclispe 5.1 or am I missing something? If the functionality is not there in MyEclipse5.1, does someone know when will it be there? Additionally, is there a work-around for this missing functionality until the changes are placed inside the next release for MyEclipse?

Thanks for a great product! I look for to hearing your response on this matter.

Russ

[Riyad Kalla]

Russ,
Sorry for the confusion. The reason you don’t see this project type is because it’s provided by WTP, which MyEclipse builds on, but not directly supported by MyEclipse at the moment. There are not immediate plans to add this project type but I know one other user, about 3 months ago, asked for this same thing so this could be something we need to add.

Briefly looking at the Sun site trying to get a better idea of what a ee app client is, it looks like a fat client that ships references to EJBs or other enterprise resources that it may need to use remotely… is this accurate? Like a large scale Swing app, with some EJB interfaces?

I’m trying to understand the parts of it, and how it’s deployed, so I can provide a good workaround.

[Russ]

Here is some background on the J2EE Application Client project. It sure would benefit us all using your tool is this was implemented in MyEclipse.

A J2EE application client is a Java application program that accesses enterprise beans, Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) application programming interfaces, and Java Message Service (JMS) message queues. The J2EE application client program runs on networked client systems. The program follows the same Java programming model as other Java programs; however, the J2EE application client depends on the application client run time to configure its execution environment, and uses the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name space to access resources.

You can use a J2EE application client to develop an application program, assemble the program into an application client project, deploy the project as a client application (JAR file), and launch the client application.

[Riyad Kalla]

Russ thank you for the clarification. I’m adding a note to add this type of project as an necessity for our J2EE developers.

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