RE: [hyades-dev] Re: Hyades Deployment

[Neil.Sanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey Joe
 
Could you briefly explain the purpose of CFGArtifact and 
CFGDeploymentSpec please.
 
Thanks
Neil

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From: jptoomey [mailto:jptoomey@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 May 2003 15:09
To: hyades-dev
Subject: [hyades-dev] Re: Hyades Deployment




Hi Neil, 

There have been some additions / clarifications to the test model that 
have not yet been dropped because the Model group as a whole was not 
ready to do a drop on Tuesday.  Attached is a zip file containing the 
current common and test cat files -- I think the changes to the 
configuration package may answer some of your questions.  After taking a 
look at this model, if it doesn't shed light on all of your questions, 
please let me know which things are still unclear (via e-mail, please -- 
I'm in a meeting all day), and I'll try to answer as quickly as I can. 

Thanks, 
--Joe 



Joe Toomey 
Senior Staff Software Engineer 
Rational Software 
IBM Software Group 
tel: (781) 676-7668 
fax: (781) 676-7640 



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Hello All, particularly test-profile and configuration modellers,

I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help my understanding of the 
configuration model, so I can progress the design of UI 
extension-points.

I was going to attend the test-model meeting today to get answers to my 
questions, but since its been cancelled I'm sending this mail.

I sent a question round last week regarding mappings between 
CFGDeployableInstances and CFGLocations and I've attached it again to 
this email because I think it still stands.

Basically I need to know :

1. Is a TPFDeployment intended to exist independently of any 
TPFTestSuite (the association-by-reference between the two, would 
suggest that it is)?

2. If (1) is true, then surely a TPFDeployment is simply a container for 

a collection of CFGLocations, and can be referenced by multiple 
TPFTestSuites...is this true?

3. If a TPFDeployment is independent, then surely it cannot contain any 
references to TPFTestSuite-specific entities (i.e. the 
CFGFDeployableInstances), however, at the moment it seems that it does. 
Is there a need for some kind of TPFTestSuite-specific entity (e.g. a 
TPFCFGMapping) which encapsulates and persists the mappings between 
CFGDeployableInstances and CFGLocations? In this way a TPFTestSuite 
could maintain multiple independent mappings into the same 
TPFDeployment. Perhaps this is the intent of CFGArtifact, I don't know.

I may be way-off in my interpretation of the configuration model, and 
perhaps my questions don't make sense, but if somebody from the test 
model group could contact me and put me right (even if these issues 
haven't been fully resolved yet) then it would really help.

Thanks in advance

Neil

Neil Sanderson
Product Development Manager
Scapa Technologies Ltd
125 McDonald Road
Edinburgh, EH7 4NW, Scotland.
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email : Neil.Sanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx