[Yanel-dev] Building/Compiling resources more efficiently

[Alec Bickerton]

simon litwan wrote:
> Alec Bickerton schrieb:
>> Michael Wechner wrote:
>>> One can build/compile a resource without having to trigger to whole
>>> build process by using the -f option, for example
>>>
>>> ./build.sh -f
>>> /home/michi/src/wyona/SOME_CUSTOM_PROJECT/res-types/shared/build.xml

>>> whereas one needs to configure the yanel.source.version within
>>> res-types/shared/src/build/dependencies.xml by setting for example
>>> <target name="dependencies" description="Dependencies">
>>>    <property name="yanel.source.version" value="1.0-dev-rREVISION"/>
>>>
>>> In order to solve this I thought about introducing an environment
>>> variable, for example
>>>
>>> export YANEL_SOURCE_HOME=/home/michi/src/wyona/public/yanel/trunk
>>>
>>> which would allow the build process to check what Yanel source
>>> version is.

Shouldn't we simply get this version number from subversion? If this is
do-able with a custom Ant task, no environment variables are needed.

>> How about having a build.xml in the realms root directory that simply
>> creates a jar against the libs in a Barebones Yanel. then copies this
>> .jar to the WEB-INF/lib of Yanel.
>>
>> Say realm-[realm-name]-lib.jar for example
>>
>> That would be a step towards easily loadable realms and would speed up
>> development. I personally haven't worked on any Yanel classes as yet,
>> I'm still getting familiar with it.
>>
>> Of course when the .jar changes you need to restart Tomcat. Unless we
>> write a classloader, I don't see any way around that.
>>   
> sounds nice to me.
> the same should be for resource-types.

Actually, I had been thinking that this realm jar file should
encapsulate all the custom classes for the realm. resource-types and
controllers etc...