Hi Angelo
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.
Yes - that's exactly right. I ran through it again and can now replicate
what you did in the video. Thank you so much for your help.
Do you think it's worth updating the getting started instructions as
follows:
1) Remove this
http://incubator.apache.org/ace/getting-started-with-the-file-based-server.html
- unless there is a way to make it work?
2) Update the Web based instructions to:
(a) specify Chrome or Safari, or at least provide a warning about FF.
(b) point to the new location of the ace-server and ace-target
(c) Add a link to your videos.
(d) Add the explanation of what the web ui (see Marcel's note) is
doing under the "how does it work' section.
I'd be happy to provide some updated text - but possibly if you are in
the middle of refactoring the Web UI it's not worth changing the
instructions just yet. Wdyt?
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
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