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Re: Compiling Glassfish in Eclipse

From: Dinesh Patil <Dinesh.Patil_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:08:24 -0700

Hi Tom, my comments inline.

Tom Ware wrote:

> Hi Dinesh,
>
> I think that the instructions are good. A couple of comments.
>
> 3. - These are great instructions about how to check out the source,
> but as a beginner, when I read these, I will always assume that I have
> to checkout and build all of the source. When you want to work with
> the entity-persistence module, you can fairly easily get away with
> just checking out that module. Are there other modules like that in
> GlassFish. If so, it might be a good idea to include either an
> explanation of why you would choose to checkout all of GlassFish vs. a
> single module.
>
> 4. Same comment. Some guidance about why you would choose to do
> bootstrap vs. bootstrap-all would be good.
>
> 6. Some suggestions about when I would choose to clean, clobber or
> clean-config would be a good idea.

thanks for the inputs, yes i will add brief information and links to FAQ
for more details.

> Additionally:
>
> Checking out the quicklook tests is covered by step 8. The
> entity-persistence-tests module is another module that is not
> automatically checked out by the checkout command. Are there others.
> It might be a good idea to acknowledge the fact that these types of
> modules exist. It might also be a good idea to either include a list
> of modules and their purposes or link to a page that has that.

I am not sure about the module level tests (unit tests), but yes we can
add the links to the specific module instructions.

We can start with entity-persistence-tests. So pls send me or add the
link if you have the details (as I am familiar with this module or
tests), will be happy to include this.

thanks
Dinesh

> -Tom
>
> Dinesh Patil wrote:
>
>> Updated the GlassFish Build Quickstart instructions on gfwiki as
>> below, and cleaned up existing Build Instructions
>> <https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/BuildGlassFish.html> also.
>> http://www.glassfishwiki.org/gfwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=BuildInformation#qs
>>
>> So please let me know if you have any comments/suggestions about
>> making this more usable/simple..
>>
>> thanks
>> Dinesh
>>
>> Markus KARG wrote:
>>
>>> Dinesh Patil wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Markus KARG wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for your kind help.
>>>>> In fact I now was able to build Glassfish. :-)
>>>>> So the next step is to install it and let it run, so I can check
>>>>> whether
>>>>> my MaxDB modifications would work correctly.
>>>>> Can you please give me instructions on that?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can take a look at the maven goals supported in GlassFish:
>>>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/BuildGlassFish.html#maven_goals
>>>>
>>>> For testing your changes, you can run "maven configure-runtime" for
>>>> configuring Single Instance Domain, or "maven configure-cluster" for
>>>> clusterd Domain, and start the domain using
>>>> "${glassfish.home}/publish/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain
>>>> --adminuser admin domain1"
>>>
>>> Dinesh,
>>>
>>> thanks a lot, I just removed "--adminuser admin domain1" and then
>>> Glassfish started up!
>>>
>>> Great, now I can start making my changes (finally). ;-)
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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