Re: [cp-patches] Re: Help needed to persuade apaches about the Classpath license: Maven does not deal with CORBA, just uses OpenEJB.

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

> Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
>
> > Building Geronimo and analyzing its source code revealed that this  
> > large
> > application does not use CORBA directly at all. All CORBA uses,
> > including references to the proprietary com.sun.corba package,  
> > come from
> > the OpenEJB project (http://openejb.codehaus.org). It seems to be a
> > completely independent project. If I am not mistaken, to replace Sun
> > CORBA completely by Trifork donation, Geronimo should keep and  
> > maintain
> > they own version of OpenEJB.

No - we work closely w/ OpenEJB and will just work with them  
accordingly.

> > I will try to talk with OpenEJB, but from the downloaded source  
> > code I
> > see that OpenEJB needs org.omg.PortableInterceptor, the last missing
> > CORBA package. Completing the interceptor is the first thing I  
> > should do.
>
> Thanks for looking into it, Audrius. I've played a bit today with
> building (and *not* running the tests at all) geronimo 1.0 M4 on  
> kaffe's
> CVS head ... it doesn't fully build yet :( 20-30 out of 70 build steps
> complete, and then some bug in kaffe's native zip code strikes. Using
> Classpath's zip gave me some sort of a busy hang (much earlier in the
> build process). :(
>
> There are a few necessary steps to repeat the build, and a few patches
> to go into geronimo and classpath. I'll clean my resulting patches
> (RMIClassLoader & javax.imageio missing methods, as well as removal of
> sun-specific code from geronimo) up and send them to geronimo &  
> check my
> classpath fixes in here. I hope that I'll get that zip bug squished
> eventually, but don't count on it just yet :)

Our intention is to get rid of the sun-specific code ASAP.  We don't  
really want it there, but wanted to get over the "all tests pass"  
hump.  We're focused on getting it out of there for M5.

> The good news are that maven 1.0.2 works fine on latest GNU
> Classpath/Kaffe, updating plugins works, download of plugins functions
> well, too, the jelly scripts function, and so on.
>
> what I did pretty much boils down to
>
> grab maven 1.0.2
> grab geronimo1.0 m4 sources
> grab kaffe cvs head & configure make install it.
> ln -s $kaffe/jre/lib/tools.jar $kaffe/lib/tools.jar for maven to  
> detect
> tools.jar (even though there is nothing in there it can use, but
> forehead seems to want it, desperately, or it trows it arms  
> desperately
> in the air and refuses to cooperate)
> set $java_home to wherever you installed kaffe
> use maven to run maven
> use maven to update all the plugins out there
> mkdir $kaffe/share/kaffe (useless empty directory, needed to convince
> ant 1.5.3 to cooperate with kaffe cvs head)
> cd into geronimo source
> maven --debug -Dmaven.test.skip=true >& build.log
>
> the build will break due to a few missing methods that I've got  
> patches
> for, I am cleaning them up and documenting them. and later the build
> will break due to Sun-isms in Geronimo::System goal, fixes for which
> should be later tonight in the geronimo jira.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic

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