Hi Kenney,
My comments inline...
Kenney Westerhof wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Rinku wrote:
Hi,
I have a use case where I need to reuse/extend the functionality
provided by existing M2 Eclipse plugin. The use case involves creating
"deployables" directory from defined project properties and some other
updates to ".wtpmodules" contents.
What I want to do is to create sort of a wrapper plugin that can
delegate 'standard' goals to the Eclipse plugin and do some pre/post
processing around these 'standard' goals. Could anyone please explain
what would be a neat way to achieve this and keep the option of being
able to reuse future Eclipse plugin releases but just updating the
version numbers in pom.
I think it would be better if your changes are put in the eclipse plugin
(at least for the contents of the .wtpmodules). Creation of custom
directories on the other hand is not something the eclipse plugin should
do - the maven build should create those too as it needs it.. maybe just
use a target/... directory for that and let eclipse automatically create
it, like target/classes?
Yes, I thought about putting my changes into the existing plugin but
then I can't simply reuse any future versions of the Eclipse plugin.
Agreed that creation of custom directories is not something that Eclipse
plugin should do by default, hence motivation behind creation of wrapper
plugin that can handle my project specific properties and delegate them
to Eclipse plugin to get the common/standard stuff done.
What are the exact changes? Do you think they are general enough
to be added to the eclipse plugin?
For instance, I need to be able to:
a) create additional <wb-resource> definitions such that I can overlay
resource patches for my development environment as per project properties.
b) setup <wb-module> definitions and a context path from my project
properties for my application server for use from within Eclipse IDE.
I'd prefer to use Eclipse plugin to get the work done to the extent
possible and handle only bits that are driven by custom project properties.
Appreciate any thoughts, suggestions.
Cheers,
Rahul .
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