8 Replies Latest reply on Jan 31, 2008 8:28 AM by pmuir

seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need to be

jsimone Jan 28, 2008 6:58 PM

I created a new project with seam-gen create-project and then imported it into eclipse as a general project. After copying the helloworld source files into the project to create a deployable EAR I noticed that the EAR that gets built from build.xml is 12 times larger that the helloworld.ear from the 2.0 updated book samples download.

helloworld.ear @ 889 KB
newproject.ear @ 11377 KB

How can this be? Did I do something wrong?

It seems the small helloworld.ear deploys and executes just fine even though there are about 100 less libs in it!

Thanks for listening!
(the above was with 2.0.1.CR2 version of Seam and Europa Eclipse with JBoss Tools 2.0 GA)

1. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

thejavafreak Jan 28, 2008 9:07 PM (in response to jsimone)

just choose which library you want to include in your ear. Go and take a look build.xml. Remove libraries that you don't require in your project.
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2. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

nickarls Jan 29, 2008 1:42 AM (in response to jsimone)

The JBoss Tools plugins seem to create a more slim skeleton.

In fact, the JBoss Tools is so noob-friendly that I think there ought to be a section "Getting started with Seam, using JBoss Tools" section in then manual since clicking through to a workable example is much more simple than the seam-gen -> import cycle
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3. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

pmuir Jan 29, 2008 7:48 AM (in response to jsimone)

nickarls - good idea. Fancy writing one? :)
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4. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

jsimone Jan 29, 2008 12:58 PM (in response to jsimone)

So what libs are actually required by a seam app? I know I can always add more libs to my project. What is the minimum ? Just jboss-seam.jar and jboss-el.jar ?

So if I am running on a fresh Jboss 4.2.2.GA install what libs need to be added for Seam?

Thanks for listening!
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5. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

nickarls Jan 29, 2008 2:55 PM (in response to jsimone)

"pete.muir@jboss.org" wrote:
nickarls - good idea. Fancy writing one? :)

Sure, I'll have some spare time as soon as the kids move out in 2023 or so ;-)
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6. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

nickarls Jan 29, 2008 4:59 PM (in response to jsimone)

Well, they didn't move out yet but at least they went to sleep ;-)

http://web.abo.fi/~nickarls/JBossToolsQuickStart.pdf

(so far mosttly screenshots covering the install & deploy of the skeleton project in WAR format)
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7. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

nickarls Jan 29, 2008 5:09 PM (in response to jsimone)

Well, most info can already be found in http://docs.jboss.org/tools/2.0.0.GA/seam/en/html_single/index.html
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8. Re: seam-gen makes EARs that are 12X bigger than they need t

pmuir Jan 31, 2008 8:28 AM (in response to jsimone)

Nice work :)

We need stuff like this on the new website for sure.
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