Newbie question on Tattletale profile

[imitchell]

Hello,

In reading about Tattletale Configuration in the 1.1 User's Guide, the description of the "profiles" key says "...profiles to resolve against".  Could someone explain what this means?

Thanks,

Ian

[jaikiran]

The configuration section http://docs.jboss.org/tattletale/userguide/en/html/gettingstarted.html#configuration has a table which explains what a "profile" is and what values it supports.

[imitchell]

Hi - That is the table to which my question applies.  What does it mean when it says "resolve against" - what are the implications to those two words.  Exactly what is being resolved, to what extent, etc.

Thanks

[jesper.pedersen]

It means the archives being scanned resolves all their dependencies on the profiles that are active.

F.ex. if you have an EE5 application when you specify "ee5" as a profile then you don't have to include the ee5-api.jar in the scan.

[imitchell]

Thanks Jesper.

Will there be a version that takes a jboss 6 classloader?

Thanks,

Ian

[jesper.pedersen]

There is no dependency on a classloader.   There is a ClassLoaderStructure plugin - and since the directory layout is the same as AS 5 you can use that one.

Otherwise wait for the 1.1.1 release - should be out soon...

[imitchell]

Ok, Thanks.

One more newbie question (hopefully) - What exactly goes into the <sourcedir>?

Is it just my .jar or is it all .jars or does tattletale rely on CLASSPATH?

The HTML content I get is empty or I get "javassist/NotFoundException" - not sure if this helpful to you or not...

Sorry for all these newbie questions - Java has come a long way since I last used in 2001 - I have some serious catching up to do!

[jesper.pedersen]

Its your distribution that you want to scan - see http://jboss.org/tattletale/docs.html

Get it up and running on the command line first - then the build environment integration should be easy.