[alf-dev] Re: Subversion Integration (was: Eclipse ALF Planning meeting

["Tim Buss" <tbuss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,
That would be most welcome.  I'm not sure whether there is time to add
Subversion to the POC before EclipseCon but I'd like to discuss that with
you.  Probably best it we talked directly.  Send me a email so we can set up
a time to talk.

Just for background, the POC runs on Windows 2003 server. As to web service
implementation, a Tomcat/Axis 1  based web service is prefered simply
because we already know how to install and run that.  We are using various
versions of Tomcat and Axis.  However, I would suggest using Apache Tomcat
5.0.28,  Apache Axis 1.1 and Sun jdk 1.4.2_07.

Since the POC is not concerend with the Vocabulary issues so much, it could
be that the WSDL you already developed can be be re-used.  Axis has a tool
that will generate a service from a WSDL so this may be quite easy to do.
Something to discuss in any case.

Regards,
Tim



"Mark Phippard" <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mirinda Lowe wrote:
>
> > Team agreed on the following improvements to the demo/application for
> > EclipseCon (starts 3/20)
> >
> > 1 - Replace Service Flow - swap CVS for DM - Gives us open source
> > capability.  Team agrees this is a good addition for the EclipseCon
> > demo.  Tasks:  - CVS Service Flow - Tim
> > - Interface/Service to have Event Manager auto reload the Event Map -
> > Tim - Call Interface/Service - Tim
> > - Install & Configure CVS - Rollo
> >
> > * Team would like to eventually have a complete open source solution
> > path, but given the time frame remaining to Eclipse Con we don't have
> > the time to do all this, but we can add in CVS & Bugzilla in that
> > timeframe.  Requirements team will continue to discuss the full use
> > case for 1.0 release.
>
> I am one of the project owners for Subclipse, the Subversion plugin for
> Eclipse.  As part of Subclipse, we have developed a fairly easy to use
> Java library named svnClientAdapter which makes it easy to work with a
> Subversion repository via Java.
>
> http://subclipse.tigris.org/
>
> Using this library, I was able to throw together in less than an hour a
> working web service that pulls a project from the repository into a
> folder, similar to what the POC is doing.  This is currently using
> WebSphere Express, but now that I know how to do it, I could probably
> make it work in Tomcat without any problem.  I had never developed a
> web service before this.
>
> Anyway, if you would like to add Subversion integration to the POC or
> at some point after, I am willing to take on adding this functionality.
> I will need some direction as to what the features/requirements of this
> would be as well as whether I should be writing a generic web service,
> or something specific to some ALF Vocabulary.  I am not clear at all on
> this aspect.  If you have a project stub or something to work with that
> would be great.
>
> I have a lot of experience with Subversion, Eclipse and the Java
> Subversion wrappers.  I have also integrated Subversion with issue
> tracking systems so have good ideas as to what works and does not work
> in that area for Subversion.
>
> Let me know if you are interested.
>
> Mark Phippard
> Director of Development
> SoftLanding Systems
>
> PS - Above code is all licensed as Apache-style or CPL so should not be
> a problem.  Also, I could set this up as a separate project in the
> Subclipse repository (which houses svnClientAdapter as well as svnAnt).
> Or it could all be included in the ALF repository.