RE: [alf-dev] The role of source control in ALF

[Mark Phippard <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

alf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/07/2006 10:41:45 AM:

> Again, why do you think it is a fundamental problem to return 
file-contents
> in a SOA? It's just a stream of bytes.

I do not know if it is a problem or not.  I guess what I was asking was 
whether the ALF vocabulary would prescribe a standard, and then what that 
might be.  What are the standards for transferring files via SOAP?  I do 
not know, I am asking.

> By the way, another SCM-related standard worth looking at, in addition 
to
> JSR 147, is WebDAV DeltaV (see http://www.webdav.org/deltav/ ). Again, 
it's
> not SOAP, so it's not directly usable by ALF. But some of the ideas 
might be
> useful. It's an extension of HTTP to support versioning. It does have a
> "GET" and "PUT" operations to obtain/update file/version contents.

Yes, I am familiar with this.  The Subversion server implements WebDAV and 
much of DeltaV.  But an SCM web service would have to talk to its 
repository to get the files for the request, then presumably repackage 
them in some way to deliver them via the web service.  I am just wondering 
whether we see this as part of ALF, or whether we would expect people that 
wanted to gain access to the source code to live with the requirement that 
all of the necessary services can access the same physical disk location. 
If we do see it as part of ALF, then what is the likely standard we would 
follow?  It is a perfectly acceptable response to say that we do not know 
yet.  I do not know how far along some of this is, so I am just asking.

Mark

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