I pushed a change yesterday that enables V3 support for EJB Module
projects in NetBeans via a system property.
It didn't make the 8/26 nightly build, but continuous builds (available
here:
http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/trunk/ ) numbered 3578
onward support this property. The latest blue build (#3586) looks like
a good candidate:
http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/trunk/3586/artifact/nbbuild/dist/zip/
Or you can wait until tomorrow and grab the 8/27 nightly build from
here:
http://bits.netbeans.org/download/trunk/nightly/latest/
You must use update center to add the ejb container to V3 of course
(current NB code won't check to verify you did, so you'll get deployment
errors if you forget to do this).
My experience with the EJB container available for V3 Build 20 (last
week's build) was rather poor. Mahesh indicated that V3 Build 21 should
be resolve most or all of the issues I saw, but remember, this is
container is under active development, pre-alpha quality, so such
problems are to be expected.
Anyway to enable this in NetBeans once you have a supported build, add
"-J-Dglassfish.javaee.ejbsupport.enable=true" to the
netbeans_default_options property in your $nbinst/etc/netbeans.conf file
or add it to the command line you start NetBeans with.
I'll see what I can do about a UI checkbox soon.
-Peter
Adam Bien wrote:
> Peter,
>
> when will be this feature available?
>
> I will file a feature request - too important to be forgotten :-),
>
>
> regards,
>
> adam
> Peter Williams schrieb:
>>
>>
>> Adam Bien wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> "...direct ejb project support will be in NB 7.0. ..."
>>>
>>> this is in my opinion for many projects not acceptable. I'm using
>>> Netbeans 6.0 with direct EJB support and GF v2 at least in 5
>>> (concurrent) projects for bigger companies in Germany / Europe. Some
>>> of the projects are Netbeans RCP / Eclipse RCP based - without web
>>> layer.
>> We discussed EJB to some degree when planning V3 plugin features for
>> NetBeans 6.5. Resources and development schedule for NetBeans 6.5
>> were very tight and the EJB container is planned to be only alpha
>> quality when GlassFish V3 Prelude is released (while the web
>> container is going to be FCS quality and supported).
>>
>> So, since nicely exposing optional downloadable server features in
>> NetBeans was a new feature that we didn't have sufficient time to get
>> right, we opted to disable EJB module support entirely.
>>
>> Enabling EJB module support in the V3 plugin is actually just a few
>> lines of code. It occurred to me this afternoon that I could add a
>> checkbox to the V3 server properties panel in NetBeans that would
>> allow you to enable this, assuming you'd already manually installed
>> the ejb container via update center. e.g. something like this:
>>
>> [ ] Enable support for EJB Modules - experimental. (Warning:
>> must manually install ejb container via Update Center)
>>
>> Or something like that. Default this to off and if you enable it you
>> get a message box telling you that it's experimental and to download
>> the container (if not already there), hit ok, and you're off.
>>
>> What do you think? Would this be helpful?
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>>>
>>> No direct EJB 3 support could hurt the GF v3 or Netbeans 6.5 adoption.
>>>
>>> I would go even further and provide support for embedded testing of
>>> EJB 3.1...
>>>
>>> This would be another "killer feature",
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>> Shreedhar Ganapathy schrieb:
>>>> Hi Adam
>>>> Here's Peter's response.
>>>>
>>>> Some answers inline.
>>>>
>>>> -Peter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: Some Tests With Netbeans
>>>>> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:38:01 +0200
>>>>> From: Adam Bien <abien_at_adam-bien.com>
>>>>> Reply-To: quality_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>>>>> To: quality_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just added b20 into Netbeans 6.5 and Vista Ultimate - some
>>>>> observations:
>>>>>
>>>>> 0. I installed GF b20 and added it into NB. It was visible first
>>>>> after restart of NB in the services tab.
>>>>> 1. The installation of the admin-console from NB works perfectly.
>>>>> 2. Update center cannot be invoked from Netbeans - see screenshot.
>>>>>
>>>> If this is 6.5 beta, known bug, fixed by me last week. V3 B20
>>>> onward renamed the launcher on windows from .bat to .exe extension.
>>>>> 3. I'm not able to add EJB 3.1 support for b20 with updatetool.
>>>>> For b15 it works. (screenshot attached)
>>>>> 4. I'm not able to deploy EJBs from Netbeans 6.5 into GF v3b15. GF
>>>>> v3 just do not show up in the "Run" menu
>>>>>
>>>> Are you trying to create an EJB module project and target V3? This
>>>> is not supported by the plugin yet. What you can do is create
>>>> EJB's inside a web app directly (Session beans at least for right
>>>> now, not sure about MDB's.) Direct ejb project support will be in
>>>> NB 7.0.
>>>>
>>>> -Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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