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Working effectivly with Alfresco

vbreivkk — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:52:37 GMT

Hello. We are in the starting phase of creating an applicaton which will use Alfresco as a repository. We need to create some new services and want to create java services.Normally when developing we are using MyEclipse for the deployment and appserver plugin. There we deploy the webapp to a configu

Re: Working effectivly with Alfresco

vbreivkk — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:15:23 GMT

We are still having problems working effectively when creating java based Alfresco services.

We tried checking out community from svn and running it in MyEclipse, but it seems that we still need to use the ant scripts to deploy. Without them we had to modify the classpath quite heavily to get all dependencies working. Still we are not able to run Alfresco inside Eclipse.

So, we can still not debug without connecting remotely to the Tomcat server.
Changing some piece of code requires a trip to cmd, running an Ant script, restarting the server, reading some webcomics for a few minutes while things restart and then test the change.

This is not very effective and I know there has to be a better way. Normally we just edit code in MyEclipse, save and test(as long as the class signature has not changed). Then we have debugging with no hassle.

Regards

Re: Working effectivly with Alfresco

mrogers — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:42:16 GMT

Alfresco's unit tests run from within Eclipse. I just add the shared folder to the classpath (to pull in the right alfresco config) and away it goes…

Re: Working effectivly with Alfresco

vbreivkk — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:53:44 GMT

Cool,

We don't have to deploy our custom java services and restart tomcat test them? We can just test them using junit?

Re: Working effectivly with Alfresco

mrogers — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:14:27 GMT

Yes if you are running alfresco locally.