Build system

[hvram]

Hi
I have been using Seam 1.21.GA for my project. I am looking for some advice on having a build system. Some of the common problems I am facing are

a) No help on GUI for using the rich:tags etc.
Solution : I am using the JSF facelet files as jspx files so that eclipse provides some sort of tag completion

b) No way to check the validity of the facelets files. ( i.e. there is no way to check if there is a managed bean by this name / or a method is available . ) This is becoming a big problem for the team since it takes time to deploy / explode and then catch the error . Is there a better way to check for the presence of the beans / methods during compile team. Any suggestions ?

Regards
Hari

[smokingapipe]

The IDE tools need to catch up with the power of Seam. One thing for catching facelet file validity: I have a task in my ant build.xml file which creates an exploded EAR file. That is what I deploy during development. I have another task in the build.xml file which pushes all the current .xhtml file to the exploded EAR file. That way, if there is a mistake in a .xhtml file, I edit the file, save it, run the ant task to push the .xhtml out, and hit reload on the browser. Takes a few seconds and lets me check without needing to redeploy.

[modoc]

Have you tried seam-gen and the build script that it creates for your project? It has the nice auto-deploy of altered view assets (if you're using eclipse), and is pretty handy.

I can't help on the facelet file validation front.

[maxandersen]

a) jboss tools does that

b) jboss tools does that (not part of ant, but we warn if some expression is not resolvable)

so have you tried jboss tools beta3 ?

[hvram]

Hi Max
Yes I have tried JBoss Tools Beta 3. I am currently unable to run it on my x86_64 bit Linux machines. Works fine on the 32 bit though

I am impressed since this seems to be an improvement over the tools support .

But I am looking for a task since I want to extend the task to do the following :

If the bean changes I want to find all the xhtml files that refer to tthe method and then invoke the appropriate tests.

Regards
Hari

[ericjava]

Is there going to be something comparable to JBoss Tools for NetBeans? I'm almost married to NetBeans at this point.