On Jan 29, 2010, at 3:35 PM, John Doyle wrote:
I would like to target the DTP related work to 7.0. Specifically,
get rid of the SQL Explorer plugins and execute VDBs via DTPs perspectives. As it is
there are a a lot of unknowns in what we're taking on for 7.0, so maybe I'm trying
to bite off too much. What do you think?
I'd love to get the removal of SQL Explorer into the 7.0 timeframe. Part of the goal
of the planning we've talked about so far is to ensure we're not dependent upon
any DTP work or the removal of SQL Explorer, but I'd still love to see it happen given
we have the time. My only concern is, since the critical thing about 7.0 is supporting
Teiid playing in the JCA world, ensuring we finish scoping out the work that doesn't
involve DTP/SQL Explorer, and adding this additional work to our schedule as time allows.
On a related issue, the DTP code is currently in my private repos,
and I was working on an Athena build for it. I thought it would be a good idea to build
it as it's own feature so that a non-Designer user of Teiid (someone building a web
app on the VDB for instance) could download it without a dependence on Designer, and it
could also be built into Designer. To that end I was figuring it could live in the
JBTools repos. We can discuss this part on another thread I suppose as its a different
issue.
We've all been granted commit access to the JBT SVN repository, so I think we ought to
immediately be able to create an extension plug-in to DTP where we place your code. As
we've discussed in previous postings and chats, we want to also separate Designer into
at least 2 features, one for the core that doesn't have any runtime capabilities
(managing connections, preview, deploying and querying VDBs), and one that adds the
runtime capabilities that would presumably have a dependency to DTP and the extensions
your providing.
Thanks,
JPAV