XDOCLET ??

[Saurabh Agrawal]

Hi folks,
Can anyone let me know wha is XDOCLET ?? Dont explain with the definition that its a source code generation engine.I wanna know where it should be used and how can it simplify your task ?How soon can i learn it??

I hope i get some response to this if anyone knows about XDoclet as such ?

Saurabh

[Valentin Tanase]

Hi Saurabh,

Dont explain with the definition that its a source code generation engine.I wanna know where it should be used and how can it simplify your task ?

Here there is a code extras from an SLSB class:

/**
 * Admin Manager Business Object.
 *
 * [B]@ejb.bean
 *      type="Stateless"
 *      display-name="Admin Manager EJB"
 *      description="Bean class for the AdminManager"
 *      view-type="remote"
 *      jndi-name="ejb/${appname}/AdminManager"[/B]
 *
* @author $Author $
 * @version $Revision$
 */
public abstract class AdminManagerBean implements SessionBean {
 
    /**
     * Creates a role with the given name
     *
     * @param roleName the name of the role which should be created
     * @param roleDesc the role's description
     *
     * @throws SystemException if an LDAP error occurs
     *
     * [B]@ejb.interface-method
     * @ejb.transaction method-intf="Remote" type="Supports"[/B]
     */
    public void createRole(String roleName, String roleDesc) throws SystemException {
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}

(Bolded tag are XDoclet specific tags). After running XDoclet the next files will be generated:

The home interface

The remote interface

web-logic-ejb.xml

ejb-jar.xml

Which simplifies the development quite a lot. Developers need only to focus implementing the business logic, which is actually a promise that J2EE has made (but not kept) in the first place.

How soon can i learn it??

As you can see it is pretty easy and it won�t take you much to get familiar with XDoclet tags. You also can build your own tags, but that�s advanced concepts that you can focus on latter on.
Regards.