[hminocha]

Hi,

I have noticed a few things about workspace mgmt.
(it could be just me…., since i am not an old hand at this)

1. When deploying our application. We need to do a rebuild. It neither does an automatic rebuild, nor warn. Does not save unsaved files. Might be a nice little improvement for future.

2. I had multiple projects. One was a myeclipse EJB project.
Another was a java client to access the EJB (normal java project, not using any myeclipse wizards).
If I try to run my client project, it for some reason triggers the EJB Doclet build for my EJB project. (Although my package explorer selection currently is at client project, not ejb project)

3. I try to use different Worksets for different projects. I select a workset and then Edit (from package exloprer). Then I can add myeclipse’s WEB modules, and EJB modules, but not EAR modules ?

4. I was playing around with log4j in my project. I had a log4j.properties in my project. The funny thing is that the xdoclet build process started using that log4j.properties …

System setup given below.
Appreciate any feedback.
Regards,
Hemant Minocha
– System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version:
Eclipse version: 2.1.1
Eclipse build id: 200306271545
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): n
If not, was it upgraded to its current version using the update manager? y
Other installed external plugins: lomboz,jboss-ide,file drag-drop etc.
Number of plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory that begin with org.eclipse.pde.*:
MyEclipse version: 2.6.2
Eclipse JDK version: 1.4.2_03
Application Server JDK version: 1.4.2_03
Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file? 7

– Message Body ——————————-

[Scott Anderson]

1. When deploying our application. We need to do a rebuild. It neither does an automatic rebuild, nor warn. Does not save unsaved files. Might be a nice little improvement for future.

Please check the setting for Window > Preferences > Workbench > ‘Perform build automatically on resource modification’. I suspect you don’t have it set.

2. I had multiple projects. One was a myeclipse EJB project.
Another was a java client to access the EJB (normal java project, not using any myeclipse wizards).
If I try to run my client project, it for some reason triggers the EJB Doclet build for my EJB project. (Although my package explorer selection currently is at client project, not ejb project)

That’s odd. XDoclet support is tied into the build loop for the EJB project so it will run whenever the EJB project needs to be rebuilt. Is there something about running your client that causes a change in your EJB project?

3. I try to use different Worksets for different projects. I select a workset and then Edit (from package exloprer). Then I can add myeclipse’s WEB modules, and EJB modules, but not EAR modules ?

EAR projects are not Java projects so they are ignored by the package explorer since it is part of the Java development environment. You need to create ‘Resource’ working sets instead of ‘Java’ working sets in order to include them.

4. I was playing around with log4j in my project. I had a log4j.properties in my project. The funny thing is that the xdoclet build process started using that log4j.properties …

That one I’m going to enter as a bug for further investigation.

[hminocha]

Something funky was going on with xdoclet. I had so many plugins , something else must have been causing it. I started from a fresh install of core eclipse, and most of the problems are gone.

Thanks for the tip on Workset (Java vs. Resource). That was a great help.

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