[ptp-dev] PE proxy ServiceProvider changes

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg
I'm working on additional changes to the PE and LoadLeveler proxies for 
service configurations and have more questions

I have a ResourceManagerServiceProvider class that extends the 
ServiceProvider class and now implements the 
IResourceManagerConfiguration interface.

The IResourceManagerConfiguration.getType() method as implemented in 
AbstractResourceManagerConfiguration gets the type by calling the 
getName() method in the corresponding AbstractResourceManagerFactory 
class. It seems that I need to do something similar in the 
ResourceManagerServiceProvider class. Should I add a new constructor to 
that class that has the AbstractResourceManagerFactory object as a 
parameter so that I have access to the factory class?

I was thinking that I had to modify the implementation of the 
AbstractResourceManagerFactory.createConfiguration() method to create and 
return an instance of the ResourceManagerServiceProvider class, and that 
meant that I had to move the PEServiceProvider class implementatoion to 
org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.pe.core.rmsystem since it did not seem right to 
require the org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.pe.core plugin to depend on the 
org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.pe.ui plugin.

THen it occurred to me that all I needed to do was add the additional 
constructor to the ResourceManagerServiceProvider class and classes that 
extend it, and everything else would work out since the 
ResourceManagerServiceProvider class implements the 
IResourceManagerConfiguration interface used elsewhere?

Also, where do these objects get created? Is the factory class 
createConfiguration method invodked from soemwhere as an add/create 
service provide option somewhere in the service configuration setup 
wizard?
Dave