[Springframework-developer] adding eclipse files to cvs

[Trevor C. <tc...@in...>]

I hope I'm not being too forward or aggressive in making some
recommendations for this project.  My experience so far has mainly been
working solo or in small teams as lead developer, so my experience with open
source (as a contributor) and large project management is nil.  If I'm out
to lunch, just let me know.

I think that the suggestion by "William G. Thompson, Jr." on the Wrox board
about adding eclipse files is a good one.  It sounds like those so far
involved (Rod, Yann, and me - not sure what Juergen is using) are using
eclipse, so adding the few eclipse specific files (.project and .classpath)
make sense to me.  I would also recommend standarizing on an eclipse
variable for the one jar we don't distribute (j2ee) as being "J2EE_HOME".
Finally, we would need to specify the eclipse output folder.  I prefer
"target" and eclipse defaults to "build", but I'll use whatever the team
decides.  To get started though, the files would be as follows (subject to
any changes recommended by the team):

.project
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
	<name>springframework</name>
	<comment></comment>
	<projects>
	</projects>
	<buildSpec>
		<buildCommand>
			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
		</buildCommand>
	</buildSpec>
	<natures>
		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
	</natures>
</projectDescription>

.classpath
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="test"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con"
path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/clover/clover.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/easymock/easymock.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/junit/junit.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib"
path="lib/mockobjects/mockobjects-0.07-core.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/velocity/velocity-1.3.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/log4j-1.2.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib"
path="lib/mockobjects/mockobjects-0.07-j1.3-j2ee1.3.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib"
path="lib/mockobjects/mockobjects-0.07-jdk1.3.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/velocity/velocity-dep-1.3.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="var" path="J2EE_HOME/lib/j2ee.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="output" path="target"/>
</classpath>

My other suggestion is partly a question which is adding .cvsignore to cvs.
I'm not sure if this is normal/good practice, or just something I've been
doing.  If we did add it, as a start it would look like:

junit-reports
.classes
.testclasses
spring-core-0.8.jar
spring-ejbimpl-0.8.jar
spring-jdbc-0.8.jar
spring-web-0.8.jar
target

My last suggestion is actually a response to an email from Rod, which I'll
quote here to get it out to the team.

>>I'm not sure about mo.whatever: maybe com.interface21.mockobjects
>>would be better--I didn't think very hard about the naming.

I think that "com.interface21.mockobjects" makes a lot more sense. I was
just recommending mo.xxx to try to match the mo.ejb which already existed.
I'll use "com.interface21.mockobjects.jdbc" for the tests I'm refactoring.
When the other tests are refactored, we should probably move mo.ejb into an
equivelent package, and possibly move servletapi as well (haven't looked
closely enough at those test objects to comment).


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