Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Ant and CVS and how they can be used together to make building and
deployment easier. We even mentioned XDoclet, another tool worth knowing
something about.
23.7
W
HAT
Y
OU
S
TILL
D
ON
'
T
K
NOW
JBoss has an IDE plug-in for Eclipse which uses XDoclet to provide an integrat-
ed development environment for writing EJBs. If you are working with Eclipse
and are going to be doing a lot of EJB development, you should definitely
explore this option.
The EJB 3.0 specification, due out within a year, promises to change all
this, at least somewhat. With support for metadata in Java 1.5 there will be a
standardized mechanism available for use in EJB class construction and
deployment. Look for some significant improvements in usability.
23.8
R
ESOURCES
• Visit
http://geronimo.apache.org
for the latest information on
Geronimo.
• Visit
http://www.jboss.org
for the latest information on JBoss.
For more information about all the tags that can be put into the various
XML configuration files, look at the DTD files which define them, for example:
•
http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd
•
http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss.dtd
•
http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web.dtd
XDoclet in Action
by Craig Walls and Norman Richards (Manning Publi-
cations, ISBN 1932394052) covers the Open Source XDoclet tool for automat-
ing the generation of Java code and related files (e.g., deployment descriptors).
