mcconnell 2002/12/02 22:58:17
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Just a note about status.
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The avalon-sandbox/assembly package is a evolving in resoponse to discusions
and ideas about profiles based containers thats been going on within the
avalon-dev list recently. Much of the content here has been ripped out of the
Avalon Excalibur Merlin packaged and refactored to be more more cleanly
compoent based. The current result is a assembly/lifestyle/lifecycle
management engine without any magic. The avalon-sandbox/merlin package is
moving towards refactoring to leverage the assembly engine in the delivery of a
dynamically deployed containers - you get exactly what you want for your
containement problem - nothing more - nothing less.
There is still a lot of stuff to be done:
* appliance manager is statically referncing the DefaultAppliance class -
the objective it to have the assembly engine dynamically assembly the asembly
implemetation class based on a comppontnt type addributute - but thins gets
into some heavy nested assembly semantics
* getting subsystem configuration in place - everythig currently works
without configuration which is noce for the dyncamic deployment scanarios, but
getting full propergation of custom configuration will be a big plus in moving
forward on the notriuon of profle diren containment
To see the API in action:
$ ant test
And you will see a bunch of test cases assemblying components with
dependecies and all that soort of stuff. While component can have dynamic
dependecies on the assembly system (i.e. a componet under asembly can may have
a depedency which will be resolved by the assembly engine by calling the
assembly engine to build the dependency), there is still work to be done on
enabling the assembly engine to call itself to enable it to extend itself
during its own assembly of itself.
All contributions are really welcome!
Cheers, Steve.
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