Feature idea for IdP

[O'Dowd, Josh]

Greetings,

I am curious what others thought about the need for a ‘edit-java’ area within the project, that would provide a facility similar to ‘edit-webapp’, but for custom source code that would be compiled and added to the class path(via jar in web app/WEB-INF/lib, I’m sure), at build time.  This would be for custom subflow Action classes, or any other added java that needed to be rolled in.

Maybe there is already a facility for this that I missed.

We have an added directory that we keep in our project-repo that fits the bill in this way for us.  But we use a separate build.xml to do the compiling, jar, and move to the /edit-webapp/WEB-INF/libl.  We run that build.xml prior to running /bin/build.sh.  While this is relatively painless, it seems detached and did require some light ant scripting knowledge, in the initial setup.

If this is already available in some way, please steer me right, and I’ll go away feeling silly.  Otherwise, I’d be happy to add a feature request if this seems like a good idea.

Thanks for considering.

Josh O’Dowd
University of Montana