Anyone know if there is a Tomcat Eclipse plugin that allows you to edit JSP live in the IDE (i.e. hit the page, make a change and refresh the browser)? I ask because a co-worker showed me that it is possible in IDEA. Repeating your workflow below 100 times as you are authoring and testing a complex page rapidly grows tiresome.
mike -----Original Message----- From: Doug Douglass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 3:11 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Best approach in using maven w/ eclipse Yes, Sysdeo Tomcat plugin. Web app work flow is similar to what you describe, but we have Tomcat and the Tomcat plugin configured to use context configuration files and just point the context to the target/<artifactId> directory of the webapp project. Therefore, the work flow is: 1) make a change in Eclipse 2) Start Tomcat, if it isn't already started 3) execute maven war:webapp 4) test/refresh in browser 5) repeat Most changes are picked up automatically by Tomcat, though some are not (e.g., changes to Spring beans configuration), so I may add the clean goal as part of the maven command, or just restart Tomcat. Though, as I think about it, using a Maven plugin may make more sense as it's configuration travels in the POM instead of in the IDE configuration. Hmmmm, I'll have to play with the Maven tomcat plugin. As for use of multiproject, we don't have all the Maven sub-projects in one Eclipse project. We have one Eclipse project per Maven sub-project, separating out almost everything but presentation from the webapp project. The only downside to this is not being able to have an Eclipse project for the Maven parent project. Though, all that's in the parent project is project.xml, project.properties, Eclipse java code/style templates, and a license/header file (for checkstyle plugin). Each sub-project sets the maven.multiproject.type property approrpiately (e.g., maven.multiproject.type=war:war for the webapp, maven.multiproject.type=jar:jar for most of the others) Perhaps I could set maven.multiproject.type=jar:deploy or some such for the other projects? Haven't tried. Can't help you out with EAR projects, we haven't done any. From what I've read on this list it appears similar to the multi-project layout we've already got. We try very hard to stick with the Maven mantra "one artifact, one project". We've found that only the most trivial project are hindered by this, and that it has helps us design more and better reusable packages. Cheers, DD P.S. All of this is with Maven 1.0.2. jk jk wrote: >Thanks Doug. For the tomcat plugin, Im presumming your referring to >the Sysdeo tomcat plugin. I also have that installed in eclipse and >use it to start & stop tomcat. Can you list down the flow of how you >would make a change in your webapp and deploy it when actively >developing? For example, this is what Im doing. > >1) Make a change in eclipse >2) Using the Systedo tomcat plugin in eclipse, start tomcat >3) Open command prompt, execute maven tomcat:install >4) Test out change in browser. >5) Make a change in eclipse again if I want to >6) In command prompt, execute maven tomcat:reload >7) Test out change in browser. > >Also, Im trying to setup something similar to what you had done with >the multiproject. But to use multiproject in eclipse, I would have to >create one root project and create 4 subprojects within that project. >I dont really want to do that as I still want to have separate projects >within eclipse which means I will opt not to use multiproject. Can >someone show me an example of an eclipse EAR project that uses maven >to build the dependencies on the projects within eclipse? > >Thanks. > >Jade > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
