Hello John,

On Jan 27, 2010, at 21:46 , John E. Conlon wrote:

> Angelo van der Sijpt wrote:
>> Hm, this could be something with the web ui. Could you try some other
>> browser?
>>  
> Yes. 
> Tried IE 7.0 from a windows xp, but could never see any labels for artifacts, 
> features, or targets.  Ouch. 
> So I installed another firefox on that windows box, and I could see the 
> labels for the elements but like my Firefox on the Ubuntu machine I could not 
> associate lower level elements to parents.  ???
> 
> Perhaps my server is hosed? What is the best way to clean my webui bundle to 
> start the server fresh?

Starting the server fresh is a matter of removing the "cache" directory (which 
is the bundle cache) and optionally also clearing out the "store" directory (if 
you want to remove all bundles from the bundle repository). I'd recommend just 
clearing the cache.

> I only guessing what the Retrieve Store and Revert buttons mean,  

Look at the UI as a client that works similar to how you work with a SVN/CVS 
repository. Retrieve the latest version from the server when you start working, 
and store it to send it back to the server (which triggers the actual update 
process). Revert speaks for itself I guess. :)

> not so sure about the Target Static/Dynamic label.

Static/dynamic is a toggle that determines what type of associations are 
created between artifacts and features.
If set to dynamic, whenever you associate a feature to an artifact, it will 
point to the highest version of that artifact. That allows you to quickly 
deploy a new version of a bundle for example. If set to static, the association 
will keep pointing to exactly the version you associated it with. If you want 
to move to a new version, you have to remove the existing association and 
create a new one.

> My target is the example one and it displays as 'configuredGatewayID - IDLE'.

That's good. IDLE is the state, and it's what you will usually see. When doing 
big updates over slow networks, you might actually catch targets being in 
different states. If an update fails, it signals so there too.

>> Autoconf files (or any other artifact that is not a bundle) are not yet
>> supported.
>> That is, the client (the bundles that know how to communicate with the
>> server) supports this, but the web ui does not show these features yet.
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACE-53 has already been created for
>> this.
>>  
> Looked at ACE-53 and saw your comment on AutoConf.  If I use the filebased 
> server and add to my target the 
> org.apache.felix.deployment.rp.autoconf-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar do you think I can 
> drop in an autoconf.xml file in my folder and it will deploy to the target??

From memory, I think you will need to manually include the resource processor 
for AutoConf too. The web UI (when we add that feature) should do that for you 
automatically, so whenever you deploy an autoconf.xml file to a target, it will 
ship the resource processor for you.

Greetings, Marcel

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