[Tony Herstell]

Displaying XML files are just an example of problems when you install the JBoss 2 beta pack of addons onto the MyEclipse suite.

Is there a way you an work with Jboss to make the tools co-exist?

The BPM tools are really nice..

Is a pian having two eclipse, one for Jboss Tools and one for MyEclipse.

[Riyad Kalla]

Do you mean total failures, like stack traces, or are you just saying there is a conflict with the file-editor registry? (right click on the file, go to Open With, and choose the other editor you want to use to work around).

[Tony Herstell]

warnings saying this editor won’t start up …

I can load up a “joint” eclipse and get you the errors if you really want.

Or you could install the JBoss newest tools into your MyEclpse and see them all yourself.

Please advise.

[Riyad Kalla]

I don’t have any workarounds for you at this point. I mentioned to our product manager and it will be something we look into after 5.0.3 ships out, to determine where the incompatibilities lie and so on. I’m sorry for the trouble in the interm.

[Tony Herstell]

No problems.
The Suite from JBoss is Beta so they might like some feeback.
I am using their suite to gain access to the SEAM stuff (BPM etc.).
Again, thanks.

[Jean-Michel Pargny]

Tony and I are in the same boat:
– The jBPM plugin is geared towards building a self-contained process archive, which must be a java project.
– Seam expects page flow and process definition files to be located directly under the root of the EAR application
– MyEclipse EAR projects are not java projects, so the plugin cannot be used to edit those files in place.

I create proceess definitions in a separate java project, then copy them (simple ant) before deloyment. Tony: for page flows, there is a workaround which you may have seen: http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2+file-viewtopic-t-13083.html
But: if this a problem, is it a MyEclipse or a Seam one ? I would not be surprised to see a different deloyment model for Seam in the near future.
In the meantime, we may have ejb3 and Facelet support from MyEclipse and JBoss tooling for Seam may have evolved towards better integration with BPM and Drools…
I am really fond of MyEclipse, feel that good support for standards is of paramount importance (JSR299 rather than Seam per se ?), also that feature bloat is a real danger. Of course, I am impatient, but luckily I can still afford to wait…

regards,

Jean-Michel

[Riyad Kalla]

Guys I’m combining all the information, requests and clarifications into an issue report for the dev team to try and evaluate for the 5.1 release. Thank you for your patience, bloat and “going down every possible path” is a concern we try and balance out with “supporting tools that help the most people”… it’s a hard balance to strike, especially in the grayer areas.

[Tony Herstell]

Thanks Jean-Michel

I got a project (seam-booking) working is MyEclipse a while ago.
basically->
build the example in ant.
crack open the .ear and map the layout onto your three MyEclipse “Ear project” mini projects called jboss-seam-booking.ear, jboss-seam-booking.war and jboss-seam-booking.jar – Watch this as the .xml files in the example are filled with some @’s.. the ones after ant has deployed arn’t and its these that you use! @ = bad when deployed.
Tell MyEclipse that the ear depends on the other two modules.
Tell eclipse NOT to keep updating the application.xml in the .ear (It puts in a DocType and stuff at the top which causes a problem when you deploy; JBoss whines about not finding summat).
Deploy!
Run…
(Oddly… The example will run with @’s in the xml files, but conversations dont work correctly!)

If anyone is desperate I can zip up the three files and ship them to you.

As for working around the incompatability with MyEclipse and the JBoss Beta IDE plugin …. I have two eclipse’s installed.. one for Jboss Plugin and one for MyEclipse (nice editor for working with xhtml).

All I need now is for the soapui eclipse plugin (www.soapui.org) to get finished (EJB3 annotations for WSDL) and I will be very happy (perhaps MyEclipse can include it)!
http://www.soapui.org/jbossws/annotations_example.html

[Riyad Kalla]

balanceofpower,
We appreciate you following up with your findings for others. It’s certainly frustrating when a tooling doesn’t immediately support all the technologies one may need for a project, so tips and tricks like these come in very handy in the interm while we work closer to the toolsets you guys need.

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