[teiid-designer-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (TEIIDDES-176) Desinger needs to embed "Teiid Embedded" as a plugin, with only dependencies to "public" APIs.

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:35 -0400, John Doyle wrote: > I'm throwing this idea out there with very little idea of how the > links between Teiid and Designer function, but I think it would be > cool and beneficial. > > AFAIK we don't have a user story abut how you update the version of > Teiid that is delivered with Designer. I think that it would be > very cool if we exposed this cabability in designer similar to the > way Installed JREs are exposed through the Preferences page. > Designer could come with a version of Teiid, but users could point > Designer to other versions of Teiid installed on their system and > choose to run with those. One of the goals we have discussed is > that we don't want Designer to be wedded to a particular version of > Teiid. Defining the links between to two in this manner would > force a contract and make it easy to test and validate that > Designer 6.X works with Teiid 6.X and 7.X, etc. > > What do you think?

Well that is certainly the case going forward to have such modularity, as this has been discussed before. However, that is not case today. There needs to be huge re-work needs to be done in designer before we can achieve this. Currently Designer knows too much about the Teiid's configuration, that needs to be fixed such that it only communicates only through the known public API like JDBC and Admin API. Ramesh..