[Springide-eclip-developer] J2EE artifact contributions

[Steven D. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi,

It struck me a few days ago while I was browsing the Weblogic
administrative console that while J2EE artifacts can be configured in
Spring just as in Weblogic or any other application server (data
source, connection pools, Hibernate session factories, JDO persistence
stores, message queues, ....) Spring doesn't have a console to manage
those artifacts.

Since Spring configuration happens off-line most of the time it would
make sense to provide a number of wizards in an IDE environment to set
up common J2EE artifacts. Examples would be:

* generic bean configuration wizard.
* data source configuration wizard.
* Hibernate session factory configuration wizard.
* JDO persistence store configuration wizard.
* Acegi configuration wizard.
* Service configuration wizard which would include transaction
demarcation and security demarcation.
* ActiveMQ configuration wizard.

Spring IDE already offers a lot of core functionality to this end so
it makes sense to me to add these wizards to the Spring IDE project.

It would make sense to me to discuss these items on this list before
implementation is started. The generic bean configuration wizard
(GBCW) seems like a good starting point. I see this as an extension
point for other wizards.

The GBCW would ideally have these features:

* a field for the bean ID.
* a field for selecting a class. I've already looked at
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.wizards.NewClassWizardPage for this.
* other bean settings: abstract, lazy-init, singleton, parent, init
and destroy methods, autowiring, ... .
* property editing: simple values, beans, bean references, lists,
maps, properties, sets, ... .

To give you some background: I've done some experimenting with Eclipse
plug-in development but basically I have little experience. I see this
as an opportunity to improve my Eclipse development skills.

Please send your feedback to the list.

Kind regards

Steven Devijver


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