Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Meeting Notes: E4 Resources Kickoff Meeti

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the notes.  I wish I were able to attend the actual 
meeting...but I was not.  After looking over the notes (especially the 
Non-Local Resources section) I have one comment.

One approach that we've (ECF) found useful for dealing Remote Resources 
is 'smart replication'.  Frequently, distribution is done in an 'all or 
nothing' manner...i.e. none of the actual data are actively replicated 
(e.g. proxies, remote file systems), or all of it is (e.g. 
CVS/scc)...and the application has no say about when/how data are 
replicated.  But with an extensible workspace/resources model, it would 
be possible to have resource-specific caching/replication strategies 
which are sensitive to the environment they run in, and sensitive to 
what the application's access patterns are...and can/could do active 
replication as needed/appropriate at runtime.

ECF has a 'replicated object API' to support such a notion (objects that 
can implement replication strategies).  This API is one of the container 
adapter apis that are accessible off of IContainer (connection).    For 
reference:  http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_API_Docs#Shared_Object_API

Hope this is of use.

Thanks,

Scott

Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> today's meeting notes are now online:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Resources/Meeting/19-Sep-2008_Kick-off
>  
> Please check whether I got everything right - Szymon, I can't quite 
> remember
> what you said in terms of background and interest. As always, feel free
> to edit or discuss here on the list (I'm watching the Wiki Notes).
>  
> Next meeting is in 2 weeks:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Resources/Meeting/3-Oct-2008
>  
> Cheers,
> --
> *Martin Oberhuber*, Senior Member of Technical Staff, *Wind River*
> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
>  
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