[jbosstools-dev] Question on data virtualization runtimes and where downloadRuntime support belongs

[Rob Stryker]

Hey all:

So, astools has historically housed almost all the download-runtime code 
for various jboss runtimes. This changed a bit, however, when karaf / 
fuse / serviceworks came on the scene.  The FuseIDE code now provides a 
home for their server bean loaders (things that accurately identify 
local installs), their runtime detectors (to work with turning those 
installs into IRuntime objects in eclipse), and their download runtimes 
(to know where to fetch them / download them / install them).

Where does Data Virtualization / teiid fit in for this?  I'm not very 
familiar with what teiid adds on to our server types. It seems they 
don't add their own server types, so that would suggest I should put 
their runtime detection code in with astools. However, if they require 
any special / teiid-only property keys to be set when creating the 
server, that would indicate they should handle the import and not me, 
since I won't have access to their custom keys. This is important for 
runtime detection, as I don't want to return a half-complete runtime / 
server with missing flags that's unusable for teiid.

So the question is:  where should the code for recognizing local DV 
installs, downloading DV runtimes, etc, live?  ASTools, or Teiid?

- Rob Stryker