topic Extentions and the Build Harness in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30284#M15542 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It seems like the build harness if fairly intuitive for adding extentions. with about two minutes of digging I found where to add my stuff to get it build my exntion.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is less intuitive to me is how to get the webclient build to include my extention components.&nbsp; I looked around for a bit in the build, searched the forums and dug in the wiki for a bit.&nbsp; I know I can MAKE it work but I thought I'd ask for the best practices.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Just as I need a way to make extentions to the afresco source so I can upgrade without fear (or upgrade with less fear) and re-work; I need the same capability from the build harness itself and from the harness of individual components.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That is unless you are headed in the direction of making extentions deployable units themselves.&nbsp; That is not the direction i see looking at the current state of affairs.&nbsp; I assume not.&nbsp; The reason to look for something like that is, I may not want to, or may not be able to recompile, repackage my extention every time i build alfresco.&nbsp; I am not keen on forcing reqression tests even with the support of JUNIT an other tools.&nbsp; Every time I do a checkout and build I have to wonder is something slipped through the process and polluted my branch/tag/whatever.&nbsp; In this way I think of compiled packages as wines.&nbsp; Guard against bit rot with your nightly/continuous builds.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:59:10 GMT rdanner 2006-04-16T07:59:10Z Extentions and the Build Harness https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30284#M15542 It seems like the build harness if fairly intuitive for adding extentions. with about two minutes of digging I found where to add my stuff to get it build my exntion.What is less intuitive to me is how to get the webclient build to include my extention components.&nbsp; I looked around for a bit in the b Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:59:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30284#M15542 rdanner 2006-04-16T07:59:10Z Re: Extentions and the Build Harness https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30285#M15543 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, although there isn't a lot of evidence to support it we are working towards being able to make extentions deployable, there are a few things we still need to do to realise this but hopefully it will make it into the 1.3 release.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the meantime, any JAR file in 3rd-party/lib not on the excluded list will get pulled into the WAR file (in WEB-INF/lib) so you could always get your extension to build and copy it there.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:21:13 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30285#M15543 gavinc 2006-04-19T22:21:13Z Re: Extentions and the Build Harness https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30286#M15544 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Yes, although there isn't a lot of evidence to support it we are working towards being able to make extentions deployable, there are a few things we still need to do to realise this but hopefully it will make it into the 1.3 release.<BR /><BR />In the meantime, any JAR file in 3rd-party/lib not on the excluded list will get pulled into the WAR file (in WEB-INF/lib) so you could always get your extension to build and copy it there.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I think what has been done so far is great, I'm just one of those whiners <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /> Is there a Official Road Map for this?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:49:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/extentions-and-the-build-harness/m-p/30286#M15544 rdanner 2006-04-20T01:49:01Z