EJB development with Maven, making it easier and more fool proof.

[rjdkolb]

Hello

Relating to this issue :
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11642
I have been thinking quite a bit on how to solve this tripping up
developers.

Here is the example of what is happening now :
1) Start NetBeans 6.8
2) Create EJB Maven project
3) Create a stateless session bean classed Stateless1 and local
interface Stateless1Local
4) Create a stateless session bean classed Stateless2 and local
interface Stateless2Local
5) Add a member to Stateless2 'private Logger logger =
Logger.getLogger(Stateless2.class);'
6) Add add a Maven dep 'log4j:log4j'
7) deploy application to GlassFish 3
Go to the GlassFish 3 admin gui. Click on the deployed project.
Stateless2 will be missing
9) A log is created in the server.log that indicated Stateless2 has a
ClassNotFoundException
10) This is because Maven's EJB package does not bundle libs

Here is the example of what is happening now with normal NetBeans
projects:
1) Start NetBeans 6.8
2) Create EJB NetBeans project
3) Create a stateless session bean classed StatelessA and local
interface StatelessALocal
4) Create a stateless session bean classed StatelessB and local
interface StatelessALocal
5) Add a member to StatelessB 'private Logger logger =
Logger.getLogger(StatelessB.class);'
6) Add add a NB dep library
7) deploy application to GlassFish 3
Go to the GlassFish 3 admin gui. Click on the deployed project.
StatelessA and StatelessB are there
9) This is because NetBeans's EJB package bundle libs


There is a simple solution to solve this.
Add the following to the Maven pom.xml
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/usage.html

Obviously not bundling all the libs with the project is a feature, but
it is an advanced feature.

I propose adding a feature request for NetBeans to add a tick box when
creating a Maven EJB to add this Maven plugin.


regards
Richard

[mvfranz]

I have used the assembly plugin, but I use it as the last step to create a zip file.

[Richard Kolb]

Hi Michael

On 16 March 2010 12:39, Michael Franz <address-removed ([email]address-removed[/email])> wrote: