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

Designer needs to embed "Teiid Embedded" as a plugin, with only dependencies to "public" APIs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-176 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/TEIIDDES-176 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Teiid Integration Affects Versions: 6.0.0 Reporter: Ramesh Reddy Assignee: Johnny Verhaeg Priority: Critical Fix For: 6.1.0 > 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..