Re: [Md4j-user] MD4J: J2EE Code Generation Tutorial with Maven

[Manos B. <man...@ge...>]

Hey Wayne,

You're fast :-)

Quoting Wayne Fay <way...@gm...>:
> I wanted to share some bug reports... since it seems you don't have
> issue tracking set up yet for MD4J.

Ah, guess i need to put that [1] in the POM (plus i need a parent POM as
an umbrella for md4j (the core) and quickstarter.

> I tried just adding a XML parser in the plugin dependencies and that
> didn't work. I also tried adding a plugin-config-systemProperties
> section like Surefire plugin uses but it didn't work -- that's not a
> parameter for hibernate3 -- so I might see about getting that added.

Weird. I'm using 1.5 right now but JAXP should have provided that in 1.4
AFAIK.


> I did a little research online and discovered this was a known
> problem
> in Hibernate. It is happening because you have specified the
> <mapping/> in your hibernate.cfg.xml -and- provided *.hbm.xml files.
> I
> commented out the <mapping/> nodes and got right past that problem.

Good catch.



> So after those fixes, I was able to successfully run mvn and generate
> the files etc in domain. I haven't tried anything in the other
> modules yet... ;-)


I think you will find those modules much easier to use, plus that is
where the fun of MD4J starts :-)


> Finally, it might be nice to see some tests added to the
> quickstarter,
> for no reason other than to encourage people to get in a testing
> frame
> of mind and demonstrate how to configure Surefire to run tests
> against
> generated Hibernate source files etc. Obviously the tests can't help
> people once they've changed the models, but they would give people a
> starting point for implementing new tests of their own.

I agree with all that but face some issues:

* Domain tests would only make sense if generated as well IMHO.
* I have no experience in writing tests that depend on a container (with
or without mock objects) so this is rather hard for me when there is so
much to do :-/
* writing tests for the core is also hard as i cant figure out what i
want to test. Havent tried to test ant tasks before either.

BTW i dont want to ask too much, but it would be helpfull for the
(currently non-existent) other md4j users if we did this on md4j-user
[2] :-)

[1]
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=779364&group_id=150959&func=browse++
[2] https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=51478

Many thanks,

Manos