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1. Re: suggestions/comments/complaints on build system wanted
nsyed4 Feb 11, 2009 12:31 PM (in response to mazz)Right of the bat, I remember the following:
1. Easy to Use: Maven
Hard to use, complaints and suggestion:
1. There is a confusion of which file to edit in order to override the usual defaults from the pom.xml. Is it the ~/.m2/settings.xml or the <rhq.home>/etc/m2/settings.xml file. For me, the former one worked. This should be clear in the documentation.
2. Using Oracle 10g instead of PostgreSQL. This wasn't hard to use but the documentation was not sufficient. There are two or three ways of doing this including using the -Dojdbc option or editing the settings.xml file. Also, documentation should include where to deploy the ojdbc14.jar. Sometimes I needed to create a directory structure for it in the ~/m2/repo. that matches to that in settings.xml. And some more information about the comparibility of ojdbc14.jar with Jdk1.5 and Java SE 6 is required. -
2. Re: suggestions/comments/complaints on build system wanted
mazz Feb 11, 2009 12:51 PM (in response to mazz)Thanks! This is exactly the kinds of things I was hoping to get.
For the record:
The /etc/m2/settings.xml is only supposed to be an "example". Changing it has no effect. This is actually a Maven configuration file - Maven wants it in your home directory by default (~/.m2/settings.xml). So the thought process here was you copy /etc/m2/settings.xml into your ~/.m2 directory and modify the ~/.m2 copy. We'll make this more clear in the build docs.
As for Oracle, we'll definitely beef those docs up. Because of the licensing restrictions, we can't ship with the ojdbc driver itself, which makes it harder than it needs to be to do this. -
3. Re: suggestions/comments/complaints on build system wanted
nsyed4 Feb 11, 2009 1:44 PM (in response to mazz)I have one more comment; it's about logging.
1. The documentation does not have reference to which logging system is used to generate log messages. Is it Apache Log4j or Java's default logger.
2. How do I change the logging levels. Eg. From INFO to ERROR. Where is the properties file?
3. Is there a way to override the logging implementation since our preference is Apache Log4J.
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4. Re: suggestions/comments/complaints on build system wanted
mazz Feb 11, 2009 1:51 PM (in response to mazz)OK, these are questions regarding plugin development I assume.
1) the agent and all plugins we ship use commons logging with log4j. You will see conf/log4j.xml in the agent. That's the file you touch. Note: if you start with RHQ_AGENT_DEBUG=true in your environment, we switch to using an internal log4j-debug.xml. If you look in the agent .jar file in /lib (the actual enterprise-agent .jar) you'll see a few log4j.xmls built in. These are used for the "debug" prompt command (e.g. you can say "debug -f log4j-warn.xml" if you want to use the built in config that only shows WARNS and ERRORs). At the agent prompt, type "help debug".
2) conf/log4j.xml - which is used by default (unless you overrode it as I mentioned above)
3) We use log4j, so you will be good to go. -
5. Re: suggestions/comments/complaints on build system wanted
mazz Feb 11, 2009 11:26 PM (in response to mazz)One other build "quirk" we need to explicitly document, something Joe and I just found out tonight.
When you do a full build, you MUST do it from the root directory (i.e. trunk/). Do NOT run "mvn install" from trunk/modules because that will not perform a full build - specifically, if we've updated 3rd party dependencies, building out of root is required to rebuild the project metadata that contains the dependency versions.
You can build the individual modules as you are performing development duties (i.e. if you are only touching the core/domain objects, doing a "mvn install" from the trunk/modules/core/domain is OK, as long as you know about the possibility of the 3rd party dep version changes).
But, if you are just wanting to perform a full distribution build from source, you must do so from the root directory.