RE: [mylar-dev] Connector Tutorial

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

One more thing: feel free to link your name and blog as the source of some
of the documentation in that section.  We're trying to encourage eclipse.org
to come up with a mechanism to credit wiki contributors:

173560: Increase wiki contribution quantity and quality via author
recognition
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173560

Until we have that I figure we should start doing it manually for those who
make significant contributions.

Mik 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mik Kersten [mailto:beatmik@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:49 PM
> To: 'Mylar developer discussions'
> Subject: RE: [mylar-dev] Connector Tutorial
> 
> John,
> 
> I just took a quick glance at your tutorial and it looks great.  It
> would be very helpful if you could incorporate this material into our
> Integrator Reference.  I find the screenshots that you added helpful
> and suggest including those as well.  Don't worry about making the
> document too long, we can make it a separate wiki page if that happens.
> But do try to keep the content concise and fit it into the current
> section in order to make it easy to continue to evolve.
> 
> Regarding the example plug-ins, we would love to get that as a
> contribution.  If you are interested please see the following bug:
> 
> 170894: Create a simple example on how to create a task repository.
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=170894
> 
> Mik
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:27 PM
> > To: Mylar developer discussions
> > Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] Connector Tutorial
> >
> > John Vliet wrote:
> > > I have been looking into creating mylar connectors for our project
> > > wiki (on jotspot.com <http://jotspot.com>) and for PVCS Tracker.
> > While
> > > doing so I have found the documentation quite sparse. I looked
> > through
> > >
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Tasks_fram
> > ework
> > > and have modeled my connector after the Trac connector as suggested
> > by
> > > this page.
> >   Hmm, there are several sections in that document on that suppose to
> > give more or less step by step instructions. You are very welcome to
> > extend and clarify this information.
> >
> >   For example, web connector only implementing first 3 sections from
> > this list:
> >
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Creating_c
> > onnector_projects
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Implementi
> > ng_core_extension_points
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Implementi
> > ng_UI_extension_points
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Query_supp
> > ort
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Task_edito
> > r
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Offline_da
> > ta_handling
> >
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_Integrator_Reference#Deployment
> > _tips
> >
> > > I have found that you can't really incrementally implement your
> > > connector. Once you start adding a new task, the calls Mylar makes
> to
> > > your connector plugin require a pretty complete understanding of
> > > repository implementation.
> >   Not quite true. You do have to have all the methods, but most of
> them
> > can be just stubs (i.e. return null or false).
> > > With the scant documentation you have to reverse engineer the
> > > functionality with the debugger. It seems that it should be
> possible
> > > to have an abstract or basic implementation and model that
> functions
> > > with minimal work, then you evolve the rest of the features.
> > >
> > > I have started to document my experience
> > > (http://jvliet.blogspot.com/2007/02/creating-mylar-connector-
> plugin-
> > for.html)
> > > but this is incomplete and I suspect wrong in a few places.
> >   Nice.
> > > I want to contribute either documentation on how to create a mylar
> > > connector, a template project that makes it easy to start slowly or
> a
> > > combination. How should I go about doing this? Is there better
> > > documentation to start with for connectors? Is this the right
> mailing
> > > list to watch (it seems a little light on traffic)?
> >   You can contribute to the above sections on Mylar's wiki. I think
> it
> > would make sense to break your document along those sections and add
> > pieces into above sections as a practical illustration.
> >
> >   regards,
> >   Eugene
> >
> >
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