Re: [jbosstools-dev] Teiid Designer and TP

>> Rationalising the teiid jar dependencies, I have noticed that I can depend the teiid_embedded_query >> plugin on the following. This removes all jboss.as dependencies except for jboss-as-cli.jar >> * org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.management.as71 > hmm - that sounds wrong - as.management.as71 are not guaranteed to be available/the correct one to use. > This *IS* weird, and I suspect it is not the correct way to do things. Almost no plugins should ever depend directly on as.management.as71, and by almost, i mean exactly none. They may require the feature (and plugin) be present, but they should have no compile time dependencies against the plugin.

The correct way to do this is to depend on org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.dmr. This is a simple wrapper for the DMR jboss-as logic which allows you to build remote management requests. Unfortunately, due to classloading issues, we can't just give the caller a ModelNode reference. Actually we can, right now, but if AS-8 or any other version of AS ever requires a new management api (and I am QUITE sure they will), this will break 100 different ways. So, the expected thing you should be doing is to depend on org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.dmr, and do something like the following: private String createResourceRequest() { ModelNode request = new ModelNode(); request.get(OP).set(READ_RESOURCE_OPERATION); // blah blah blah make more model node request return request.toJSONString(true); } Once it's available as a JSON string, you should do the following: String resultJSON = JBoss7ManagerUtil.executeWithService(new JBoss7ManagerUtil.IServiceAware<String>() { public String execute(IJBoss7ManagerService service) throws Exception { return service.execute(new AS7ManagementDetails(getServer()), createResourceRequest()); } }, getServer()); This will require you to have org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core on your classpath. The as.core plugin will search for a service interface that fits the given version of the server (ie for a while we had two different implementers, one for as7 and one for as7.1. Appserver team eventually fixed the broken backwards compatability and so the other was removed.) If you guys are doing something that doesn't involve wtp IServer objects at all, and can't use the constructor for AS7ManagementDetails, you can always fill out the interface in your own way via IAS7ManagementDetails I'll try to get a wiki page up to demonstrate this, and maybe an example plugin if possible.