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Re: [virgo-dev] Building a custom artifact deployer

Hi Peter

Ok, thanks. I've raised:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320368

to promote ArtifactStorage to an exported package.

Glyn
On 20 Jul 2010, at 09:52, Peter Gardfjäll wrote:

> Hi Glyn,
> 
> I guess I could make an attempt to write a sample custom deployer. I
> don't have a toy example for Virgo yet.
> What I have written, as part of another project, is code for
> atomically deploying/starting/undeploying zip files containing bundle
> jars (a "poor man's PAR" without scoping, pulling in dependencies,
> etc).
> I could try to adapt that code to the Virgo deployment interfaces.
> I am currently on vacation so I can't give you a time frame yet.
> 
> The first step is to make sure all classes/interfaces that are to be
> exposed in the public API are promoted to exported packages.
> I'm not sure if ArtifactStorage is the only missing link here, but a
> start would be to promote it and notify me when its done. Then I could
> have a new go at it. When I have some working code I'll put it on
> github.
> 
> best regards, Peter
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Glyn Normington <gnormington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Peter
>> 
>> Yes, InstallArtifactTreeFactory obeys the whiteboard pattern and the deployer will pick up any that are registered.
>> 
>> Your right that the ArtifactStorage interface needs promoting to an exported package to be usable by 3rd parties.
>> 
>> It would be good to collaborate on a toy example and then make that available as a Virgo sample. Compare [1].
>> 
>> Would you be interested in stripping down what you are doing into a toy and, with my and possibly others' help, getting that going with Virgo with a view to contributing it as a sample? (I guess the best way would be to create a small project on github that I could then directly access rather than sending zips around, but you can call the shots here.)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Glyn
>> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=315867
>> On 9 Jul 2010, at 15:21, Peter Gardfjäll wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> as far as I can tell part of writing a custom artifact deployer for
>>> Virgo is to register an InstallArtifactTreeFactory in the OSGi service
>>> registry.
>>> I assume that all such factories get picked up by the Virgo runtime.
>>> Am I right so far...?
>>> 
>>> If that is indeed the correct approach, one apparent problem that
>>> strikes me is that the ArtifactStorage interface, which is a parameter
>>> of the InstallArtifactTreeFactory.constructInstallArtifactTree method,
>>> is internal to the org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.deployer bundle (that is,
>>> its package is not exported).
>>> This makes it impossible for me to write a bundle with a custom tree factory.
>>> Maybe some restructuring is required to simplify the development of
>>> additional deployers?
>>> What are your thoughts?
>>> 
>>> best regards, Peter
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