Re: New to Eclipse and WOLips, what happens?

From: Jean Pierre Malrieu (jp.malrie..ree.fr)
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 09:07:26 EDT

  • Next message: Pascal Robert: "Re: New to Eclipse and WOLips, what happens?"

    WOLips does not work with Eclipse 3.3, I have heard.
    For the other issues, take a look at:

    http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Tutorials

    JPM

    Le 16 mai 07 à 14:53, Johan Henselmans a écrit :

    > OK, I've bitten the bullet and decided the next project will be
    > done in Eclipse and WOLips.
    >
    > And now I remember why I did not do it before. I first tried to set
    > up Eclipse. Problem with 3.2.2 was that the help function did not
    > work. And the updates did not work. On a hunch, I tried running
    > Eclipse under admin privileges. Now updates do work.
    >
    > I download WOLips from http://webobjects.mdimension.com/WOLips/
    > stable/ and install WOLips. Still no help.
    >
    > Then I decide to install Eclipse 3.3M7, seeing if it is any better
    > in the help department. Again, installing as an admin user, then
    > installing WOLips. It works.
    >
    > Then (in 3.3m7) I start a new WOFramework, to get the BusinessLogic
    > in one place. Let's call it BuL.Framework. Then I start the new
    > EOModel in the Framework. I use the Wizard to create a model in the
    > Framework.
    >
    > First I get a message with title "EOModel Verification Failures"
    > that says: "Creating empty EOModelGroup for this model because BuL
    > does not exist."
    >
    > I click OK, no other options.
    >
    > I get an error: "Error while creating resource reason: Bul does not
    > exist. "
    >
    > I click OK, no other options.
    >
    > I am back in the Create Enterprise Model wizard.
    >
    > Again I click on finish, and get the "EOModel Verification
    > Failures" thas says: "There's already a model in /Users/johan/
    > Documents/workspace/Bul/MyEOModel.eomodeld.
    >
    > Hmm.
    >
    > I click on OK. I am back in Package Explorer, with a folder
    > MyEOModel EOModel, a MyEOModel.eogen file and a
    > MyEOModel.eomodelgrouo.
    >
    > I click on the folder MyEOModel EOModel, and get the following error:
    >
    > Unable to create this part due to an internal error. Reason for the
    > failure: Failed to create EOModelEditorInput for
    > org.eclipse.ui.part.FileEditorInput(/BuL/MyEOModel.eomodeld/
    > index.eomodeld).
    > BuL does not exist
    >
    > That for Eclipse 3.3, with the help.
    >
    > So I decide to use Eclipse 3.2.2, without the help. I recognizes my
    > BuL project, but clicking the Help does not reveal anything. So I
    > click on MyEoModel. Unfortunately, I have somehow screwed up the
    > view and I only get a full window with Entity Modeler back. How do
    > I get the view back that is in the manual that I can only read in
    > Eclipse 3.3?
    >
    > I find a small button in the upper right corner, that says: Other.
    > There I find the WOLips perspective back. But every time I click on
    > the Model, it gives me the strange perspective, with the Name/Table
    > Name/Class Name and Parent name. I then discover the Open In New
    > Window contextual Menu option, that opens a new window in the
    > perspective that is in the manual.
    >
    > "Hurrah!! and all that", as Blackadder's empty headed companion
    > would say.
    >
    > On the bottom there is a small green messages that says: "Read Me
    > Trim (Bottom)".
    >
    > On the menu items I find the button reverse engineer. However, in
    > the Default Config connection properties I am not able to use
    > prototypes (should I have added ERPrototypes to the Framework?) but
    > I do manage to set up the connection and get the tables and
    > relations in the project. I get a whole lot of error messages while
    > saving that I should not have put a relation value to not be able
    > to be null while not making it a mandatory relation.
    >
    > I... must... use... prototpyes....
    > ,
    > so I get back to step one, I create a Wonder Framework, and now the
    > Eomodel gets created without any complaints. Also, I can now use
    > the EOJDCBPostgresPrototypes, that I want to use. ONce again, a
    > reverse engineering import, and I seem to have a basic WonderBuL
    > framework, and I would like to use it for a direct to Web Application.
    >
    > So on to deploying this basic framework. After some searching (no
    > project->deployment option) I dsicover that there is a build
    > folder. The things I see there look famliar. So I copy the
    > framework to /Library/Frameworks. Mind you, it is only an Eomodel
    > for the moment in the Framework.
    >
    > According to the documentation, I should be able to select the
    > Framework by clicking on the configure buttton on the conectextual
    > menu with the mousepointer over the WO Frameworks in my WonderBul
    > project. Unfortunately, it does not show up. Frameworks without
    > jars are apparently no frameworks according to Eclipse/WoLipses logic.
    >
    > It is now a few hours later, I just wanted to do make a simple
    > BusinessLogic Framework and do some direct to web formatting and
    > discover the capabilities of Eclipse.
    >
    > How do you guys get any work done?
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Johan Henselmans
    > http://www.netsense.nl
    > Tel: +31-20-6267538
    > Fax: +31-20-6273852
    >
    >
    >



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