Maven Plug-in Usage Instructions for Eclipse about coweb HOT 5 CLOSED

Original Feature Title: Eclipse Plug-in Package for developers

Triage decision: We currently provide a Maven Archetype for use with the "m2eclipse" plugin for Eclipse. This usage should be documented. So that we can outline how to use OpenCoweb within a Maven enhanced Eclipse workbench.

We realize that Rational and others may desire a WTP supported plugin. We will cal out in our docs that this is currently not supported. It can be requested as a feature or addressed by a specific vendor.

from coweb.

The writeup I did in https://github.com/opencoweb/coweb/wiki/Developing-Coweb-Apps-in-Eclipse-with-WTP should provide details on how coweb based applications can be developed in an Eclipse/WTP environment. There are 2 key actions that have to be taken to make this possible :

1. After generating the coweb project via maven the developer must also call maven to create the eclipse project files.
2. Developers must ensure that the target lib directory of their maven project is setup as a virtual directory within the src directory of the eclipse project to ensure that WTP will be able to locate all the web resources required.

I'm not sure if there is still a Coweb WTP plugin required to be written or if this is sufficient.

from coweb.

We originally felts that an Eclipse plugin would help to get IBM Rational or another Eclipse-based vendor to embrace OCW. Based on your assessment it would seem we can make a few updates to your wiki page, close this issue by pointing to the wiki page and then redirect Rational and others to the wiki page. Packaging into a plugin is something they can address. For example it maybe something IBM Rational could address as part of IMPACT 20112 Web 2.0 Feature Pack.

from coweb.

Upon revisiting this issue, we think that we should approach this via an Eclipse facet that talks to the Maven repository.

We will set aside as lower priority at this juncture (pre- 1.0).

from coweb.

I have updated https://github.com/opencoweb/coweb/wiki/Developing-Coweb-Apps-in-Eclipse-with-WTP with simpler instructions that use the WAR output of the coweb-build component

from coweb.