Re: [orion-dev] Using individual Orion components

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Generally speaking Orion components are
designed to be as independently consumable as possible. You should be able
to consume the Orion preference servlet without pulling in much else, other
than some basic core orion services. Having said that it's hard to say
if it is worth it here. The Orion preference service currently has three
scopes: user, workspace, and project. There is no notion of globally scoped
preferences shared between users. So it is currently fairly tied to IDE
concepts.  I would also say our preference service is currently quite
rudimentary. It doesn't scale very well beyond about 10,000 users, and
has no mechanism for customization, product-level overrides, import/export,
etc. Some of these will undoubtedly improve over time but I want to be
clear what you're currently getting. In short, you can consume this from
Orion but whether it is a "good idea" for your project I cannot
say. I hope that helps,

John




From:      
 Dale Lane <Dale.Lane@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Date:      
 07/22/2013 10:29 AM
Subject:    
   [orion-dev]
Using individual Orion components
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Hello all 

We're building an OSGi-based web application. We need to add support for
preferences to it. 

We need to support both global and user-specific preferences
We also need to allow our optional OSGi bundles to be able to contribute
preferences specific to those plugins. 

It was suggested to me that we could reuse components from Orion to do
this - that Orion could implement both the back-end support for preferences
management, and give us a starting-point for a frontend UI for the user
to view and edit preferences. 

Is this a good idea? Can individual capabilities from Orion be used like
this in non-IDE apps? 

If so, are there any starting points for how to go about this?

Thanks in advance for any advice people can offer!

Kind regards 

Dale
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