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Bug 81372

Summary:	Enterprise Resource folder not defined in freeform webproject
Product:	javaee	Reporter:	Nitya Doraisamy <nityad>
Component:	Web Freeform	Assignee:	David Konecny <dkonecny>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker	CC:	ludo, pjiricka
Priority:	P2
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	81237, 89477

Description Nitya Doraisamy 2006-07-28 19:55:28 UTC

Create a web freeform project. The created project's project.properties does not
have property for used for Enterprise Resources - resource.dir

This is causing issues with UseDatabaseAction, Sun Server Resources etc. , all
of which depend on obtaining this value from the project

Comment 1 Radko Najman 2006-07-31 10:15:03 UTC

I'm confused with this issue. Freeform project doesn't use project.propertis
file, properties are stored in project.xml.
If project.properties is not used by freeform, what do you mean by "created
project's project.properties"? Could you clarify it more, please?
Nevertheless you are right, freeform project doesn't care about resource.dir.

Comment 2 Nitya Doraisamy 2006-07-31 17:20:31 UTC

Is resource creation not supported for web freeform or did I miss a huge chunk
of discussion.

The plugins use getEnterpriseResourceDirectory() to identify the directory in
which resources will be created. This is available in EJB freeform project. But
the web freeform does not provide this. Without this value, the resources will
not get created in the correct location for web freeform project (appserver
plugin) and in UseDatabase action calls, there are exceptions being generated.
SO what is the equivalent in web freeform.

Comment 3 Radko Najman 2006-08-01 13:06:18 UTC

From my point of view resource creation is not supported in web freeform
project. There is no "resource.dir" property defined in this project which means
that getEnterpriseResourceDirectory() method is not implemented and UI for
setting this property is missing as well. Is it enough to set resource.dir for
resource creation? Don't you need also server instance? Server instance is not
set in web freeform too.

Do we want to fix it in 5.5? It sounds to me like a new feature in web freeform
so can we do it now?

Comment 4 Petr Jiricka 2006-08-01 13:24:33 UTC

I don't believe this was ever supported in freeform project. This is a
substantial change, I think we will need to introduce the concept of target
server instance for freeform projects, which will also be useful for other areas
(e.g. JPA support). Let's make this an enhancement for NB 6.0.

Comment 5 Radko Najman 2006-08-03 15:37:06 UTC

Changing to enhancement as Petr proposed.

Comment 6 Nitya Doraisamy 2006-08-04 19:10:50 UTC

Just an FYI, the EJB freeform project does support this feature. So the lack of
this support does not apply to all freeform projects.