[jdom-interest] Newbie: JDom-Test (Can this actually be run)

[Richard Landon]

JAR consolidation.

These are the JAR files that are bundled with the "lastest" JDOM milestone
(what do we call it? I got the CVS code two days ago? Beta-5? Sorry if I am 
using the wrong release name for the milestone).

I seem to need to have these JAR files in my classpath to execute the 
various jdom or jdom-contrib samples and test code 

(I'm also messing with the Java and XML book code samples)


./antlr.jar
./antlrall.jar
./collections.jar
./jakarta-regexp-1.1.jar
./jdom-contrib.jar
./jdom-test.jar
./jdom.jar
./xerces.jar

(I've dropped the junit.jar file from this list as we already have it tucked
away into our test environment. I can probably drop the jdom-test.jar? and
probably
the collections.jar file since we using JDK 1.2.x?)

I'll also suppose that I'll eventually need or want a different DOM XML
parser jar (any recommendations other than xerces from Apache) and the SAX 2
parser jar and of course JAXP API from Javasoft?. I'd like to put all of
these into 1 JAR, but I'm not sure how or if I can do this by directly
packaging these jar's into (say) a zip file, which I stick into the
CLASSPATH (is this possible with JAR's: to insert multiple JARS and then
somehow define an
appropriate manifeast indicating what jar in the jar or zip contains what
Java classes
or am I dreaming?)

I've looked at the BeanMapper example in the jdom-contrib and want to
simulate something
akin to it for Entity EJB: we're using an MVC based EJB-centric design for
our system.
The idea being that we can return an XML document in a String as data when
we dispatch
the model change notification to the View (which exists within a JavaBean in
the Web-Tier).
I am dreaming, or just insane? I would appreciate any feed-back on the
general design
and approach (Really I would). I understand this is an XML not EJB forum,
but hey, it's 
worth a shot? Here's a pointer to a discussion on XML and EJB that I'm
pretty much modeling
the approach after:
http://theserverside.com/patterns/thread.jsp?thread_id=343

Thanks for any pointers you may be willingly to provide.

Regards, Rick Landon





-----Original Message-----
From: philip.nelson at omniresources.com
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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:51 PM
To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
Subject: RE: [jdom-interest] Newbie: JDom-Test (Can this actually be
run)



> I've recently download and built the beta-4 milestone of JDOM.
> Is there a way to verify the build using the JDom-test package?
> We also use JUNIT ourselves.  
> 
No, this would not be possible because there is no snapshot of or even
versions of test most cases for beta 4.  Development of test cases for beta
5 is "mostly" through the top level classes and not at all into sub
packages.

> Is there an easy way to consolidate all these JAR files?

which ones?
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