Hi Zoe, Judging from the steps you described, it seems you missed the 'retrieve' and 'store' steps, which I glossed over in the video. Perhaps http://incubator.apache.org/ace/getting-started-with-the-web-ui-based-server.html is of more help.
Angelo On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:08 AM, zoe slattery wrote: > On 06/10/2010 21:41, Hiranya Jayathilaka wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Angelo van der Sijpt >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hm, yes, about the drag and drop... It's very well possible this does not >>> work on Firefox. Last time I checked, Safari and Chrome were both fine. >>> This has something to do with the dnd plugin we use. >> I tried on FF3 and Chrome. No luck so far :( > I got further with Chrome. Using Chrome I can: > > 1) Add artifacts > 2) Add a feature and associate artifacts with it using drag and drop > 3) Add a distribution and associate features with it > 4) Drag and drop the distribution to the gateway.... > > Then nothing. Listing the bundles in the gateway shows no servicebased* > bundles. The frequency of the "[Info ] [ ] Highest remote: null / Highest > local: null" makes it very difficult to do much with the gateway console :-/ > I would also have expected that teh servicebased* files would show up on disk > under the gateway somewhere. They don't, but I may be misunderstanding how > this should work :-) > > Zoe >> Thanks, >> Hiranya >> >>> Angelo >>> >>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Hiranya Jayathilaka wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Zoe, >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:06 AM, zoe slattery<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On 06/10/2010 18:34, Hiranya Jayathilaka wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Angelo van der Sijpt >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Indeed, I created a set of screencasts quite some time ago. You can find >>>>>>> links to them at http://changelos.com/2009/11/08/apache-ace-visuals/ . >>>>>> Thanks for the reference Angelo. Will try this out and get back if I >>>>>> run into any issues. >>>>> Hi - I followed through Angelo's 'Simple Deployment' video and got up to >>>>> the >>>>> point where I could add the three files (servicebased-host.jar etc) as >>>>> 'Artifacts'. The next step in the video shows creating 'Group's and >>>>> associating the artifacts with groups. In the current WebUI the 'Group' >>>>> column is replaced with 'Feature'. I was hoping that this was just a name >>>>> change - however, although I could create 'Feature's, the drag and drop >>>>> which should associate Artifacts with Features does not work for me. >>>> I'm also stuck at this point. I can add any OSGi bundle into the >>>> artifact column. I can create new features and distributions in the >>>> corresponding columns. But the drag-n-drop across different columns >>>> doesn't seem to do anything. Any help would be much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Hiranya >>>> >>>> Any >>>>> suggestions on how to figure out what is not working would be welcome :-) >>>>> >>>>> Zoe >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Hiranya >>>>>> >>>>>>> Angelo >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Toni Menzel wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Zoe, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> glad to see you + aries people here on ace. ;) >>>>>>>> The log message "Highest remote: null / Highest local: null" was also >>>>>>>> a little confusing to me, but it just says, that there is nothing to >>>>>>>> be deployed on the managementagent (old speak: gateway) yet. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> About: "The WebUI is there but looks a little odd" >>>>>>>> Its a rush GWT port of a commercial UI that has not been open sourced >>>>>>>> by luminis. Currently, Marcel is doing a Vaadlin Version instead - >>>>>>>> heard its much more straightforward to develop such a ui than raw GWT. >>>>>>>> So, better we'll wait for him here. But i agree the current webUI is >>>>>>>> not the best thing since sliced bread. >>>>>>>> But it works, i believe there was a screencast on how to use it by >>>>>>>> Angelo ? Not sure. If not we should make one. Otherwise its quite hard >>>>>>>> to get started. >>>>>>>> As a quick hint: you need to add bundles the repository by copying >>>>>>>> them to the upload folder (not sure, its called repository i guess in >>>>>>>> the server folder). They should appear on the left column in the ui. >>>>>>>> Also, when running one or more gateways, they should appear in the UI, >>>>>>>> too. >>>>>>>> Now you can bring the "two" together by wiring them: create a group, >>>>>>>> drag the artifact (left) on the group, and so on. So its drag an drop >>>>>>>> based. Coloring indicate "wired" pieces. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Bottomline: >>>>>>>> Your builds are fine, just the UI needs assistance and/or a >>>>>>>> replacement. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Toni >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:31 AM, zoe slattery<[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 05/10/2010 22:59, Hiranya Jayathilaka wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi Devs, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> As I understand the two main tutorials available on the website >>>>>>>>>> (Getting started with file based server, Getting started with Web UI >>>>>>>>>> server) deal with the legacy module in the Ace trunk. So I guess I >>>>>>>>>> have to build the legacy module using Ant to follow these articles. >>>>>>>>>> Am >>>>>>>>>> I correct? Are there any similar documents for the Maven based build? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>> I have exactly the same problem. I followed the build instructions for >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> maven build, got the server running and the gateway (albeit with a >>>>>>>>> distracting info message every second(?) "Highest remote: null / >>>>>>>>> Highest >>>>>>>>> local: null") - did not get any further than this so far. The WebUI is >>>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>>> but looks a little odd - I'd like to get the command line instructions >>>>>>>>> working, any pointers would be much appreciated. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Zoė >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Toni Menzel || http://okidokiteam.com >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Hiranya Jayathilaka >>>> Senior Software Engineer; >>>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org >>>> E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 >>>> Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com >>> >> >> >
