Thanks Peter. A detailed email like this takes a lot of time to write
and it will safe a lot more time for every one !
Judy
Peter Williams wrote:
> 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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