[dna-dev] What michael is up to lately

Randall Hauch rhauch at redhat.com
Tue Apr 8 18:06:57 EDT 2008


I think it makes sense.  You're basically creating a client library  
that does the "SCM-like" operations, and which interacts with the  
(remote?) Guvnor repository (server?).

On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Michael Neale wrote:
> We were using SVNKit - but for the moment, we are going to sidestep
> the SVN sync directly (the code we have works, and people are free to
> use it, but we may not).
>
> Instead, we will have a simple remote api for the repository, and have
> a little client lib (and ant task) to allow SCM "like" operations on
> the Guvnor repository. We have also looked at Eclipse team support,
> and its possible to do this in such a way that eclipse knows about it
> (so a file can also be in a regular SVN). This means we are not tied
> to SVN for this feature.
>
> A richer SVN sync would be nice - but as you mentioned once before,
> this is kind of a funciton that DNA/meta matrix could provide as a
> data service, in the future.
>
> Does that make sense? bit hard to explain - happy to chat it out if  
> it helps.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Randall Hauch <rhauch at redhat.com>  
> wrote:
>> Thanks for sending this out, Michael.  I hope to get started on the
>> federation (especially SCM) capability in the next few weeks, after  
>> the
>> initial release goes out the door.  Are you using any SVN library  
>> that suits
>> your needs?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Michael Neale wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2 things:
>>>
>>> * drools-repository (which is just back end code, only depends on
>>> jackrabbit, not web component) to be extracted, and "genericised" -
>>> this could serve as a very useful test bed for the DNA repository  
>>> back
>>> end, at the very least, as it excercises all the features that we  
>>> will
>>> use in the SOA repository - that are needed by JCR (ergo, DNA
>>> repository).
>>>
>>> * Whilst hopefully DNA repository can give us SCM sync ability
>>> (ClearCase, SVN, CVS etc etc) - we are building a component to allow
>>> IDEs, Command line etc to add/list/remove/update content from SOA
>>> repository (like a Very Simple Version System) - so we can edit/SCM
>>> file artifacts in the IDE (eg rules, interface contracts) yet have
>>> them available on the web and managed in the SOA repository (keep  
>>> devs
>>> and managers happy).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael D Neale
>>> home: www.michaelneale.net
>>> blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com
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>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Michael D Neale
> home: www.michaelneale.net
> blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com




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