Hello Zoe, The web UI uses a checkout/commit paradigm just like version control systems, so before you start, you "checkout" the data on the server, then you make your changes, and finally you "commit" them back to the server. Only then will they be deployed. We did it like this so you can apply all your changes in one go, instead of running the risk that partial changes get deployed while you're still making them.
When assigning bundles to targets (via features and distributions) these bundles do not physically show up under the gateway on disk. The only thing that's done is that the metadata (the actual assignments of bundles to targets) gets stored. Whenever a target (or rather, management agent on the target) polls the server for an update, a deployment package (full or delta between two versions) is generated on the fly, based on the metadata and the bundles in the OBR. Greetings, Marcel On 7 Oct 2010, at 11:08 , 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 >>> >> >> >
