[teiid-dev] Connector Development Tooling (CDK)

[Ramesh Reddy]

This email solicitation for contributors and to discuss about tooling
requirement for developing custom/user developed Connectors in Teiid.
This is email contains contents from email that Van sent out internally
last week.

Teiid currently provides command line tool called CDK, which can be used
to test Custom connectors, however this tool is inadequate, does not
provide development time support, it only helps during testing. It would
be ideal if there was a UI tool that quickly helped with setting up a
java project for Connector development and helped with testing. 

Some basic requirements are
- eclipse based plug-in, and support java development
- using connector api as the template to stub out the classes required
to start writing the custom connector
- provide the ability to test the connector by executing a query. Much
like SQL Explorer functionality Teiid Designer has  
- Manage the connector type properties
- Provide ability to package the connector 

Since Connectors may be the very first extensions to Teiid system that a
user might extend/contribute to integrate data from custom data sources
making that experience less painful would be IMO a good goal. 

Please comment if you think this tool is 
1) valuable to pursue, 
2) what other features you would wish to see in this this tool to do in
terms of connector development 

Thanks

Ramesh..